Viewing Print Jobs

You can monitor the status of your print jobs using the Print utility on a Windows 95 or NT system or using the lp commands on a UNIX system.

To View Print Jobs on Windows 95 and Windows NT

1. Click the Start button, point to Settings, and then click Printers.

   The Printers window opens.

2. Double-click the shared printer's queue name.

   A window opens that shows details such as the document name, the status, the owner, the progress, and the start time.

To View Print Jobs on UNIX Systems

Use the print commands of your UNIX operating system to view the available printers, the status of print requests, and to cancel print requests.

For example, assuming the queue name of a shared PC printer is dopey1_laser, you would enter the commands shown in Table 5-5 in the Solaris 2.6 operating environment or compatible versions.

Table 5-5 Print Commands for the Solaris 2.6 Operating Environment or Compatible Version

To do the following...	Enter this command in Solaris 2.6 or compatible versions
Display status information about print jobs on the PC printer	lpstat dopey1_laser filename
Print to the shared PC printer when it is not the default printer	lp -d dopey1_laser filename
View print jobs sent to the shared PC printer	lpstat -p dopey1_laser
Cancel print jobs sent to the shared PC printer	cancel job-ID