Example—Adding A Network Printer With LP Commands

The commands in this example must be executed on the print server. The following information is used as an example. The information you provide will vary.

• Printer name: luna1

• Server: saturn

• Network printer access name: nimquat:9100

• Protocol: tcp

• Timeout: 5

• Interface: /usr/lib/lp/model/netstandard

• Printer type: PS

• Content types: postscript

• Device: /dev/null

  # lpadmin -p luna1 -v /dev/null 1 # lpadmin -p luna1 -m netstandard 2 # lpadmin -p luna1 -o dest=nimquat:9100 -o protocol=tcp -o timeout=5 3 # lpadmin -p luna1 -I postscript -T PS 4 # cd /etc/lp/fd # for filter in *.fd;do > name=`basename $filter .fd` > lpfilter -f $name -F $filter > done 5 # accept luna1 destination "luna1" now accepting requests # enable luna1 6 printer "luna1" now enabled # lpadmin -p luna1 -D "Room 1954 ps" 7 # lpstat -p luna1 8 printer luna1 is idle. enabled since Jul 12 11:17 2001. available.

1. Defines printer name and sets the device to /dev/null.

2. Defines the interface script for network printers.

3. Sets the destination, protocol, and timeout.

4. Specifies the file content types to which the printer can print directly, and the printer type.

5. Adds print filters to the print server.

6. Accepts print requests for the printer and enables the printer.

7. Adds a description for the printer.

8. Verifies that the printer is ready.