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System Administration Guide: Printing     Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10
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Preface

1.  Introduction to Printing in the Oracle Solaris Operating System

2.  Planning for Printing (Tasks)

3.  Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS (Tasks)

4.  Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using Print Manager for LP (Tasks)

Introduction to Print Manager for LP

Notification of Printing Events in Oracle Solaris Desktop

Switching From CUPS to the LP Print Service

How to Enable Print Manager for LP

Managing Network Device Discovery Services (Task Map)

How Auto-Discovery of Devices Works

Issues With the Network-Attached Printer Discovery Service Under LP

How to Enable the Network Device Discovery Service From the Desktop

How to Enable Network Device Discovery Services by Using SMF

How to Determine Which Printers Are Known to the System

Getting Started With Print Manager for LP

About the Print Manager Window

Managing Printers by Using Print Manager for LP (Task Map)

Adding Newly Discovered Printers by Using Print Manager for LP

How To Set Up Auto-Discovered Printers by Using Print Manager for LP

How to Manually Add a Printer by Using Print Manager for LP

Managing Printer Queues by Using Print Manager for LP

How to View or Change a Print Queue's Properties

How to Delete a Print Queue

How to Pause or Resume a Print Queue

Managing Printer Groups and Print Jobs (Task Map)

Managing Printer Groups

How to Create a New Printer Group

How to Create a New Search Group

How to Create a New Search Group by Using a Queue Pane Filter

How to View or Change an Existing Search Group's Properties

How to Delete a Printer Group

Managing Print Jobs by Using Print Manager for LP

How to Delete a Print Job

Managing Print Manager for LP Behavior and Preferences (Task Map)

Setting Preferences That Determine How Print Manager for LP Behaves

Setting Preferences for Local USB Printer Discovery

Settings Preferences for Network-Attached Printer Discovery

Configuring Auto-Discovery Settings for Network-Attached Printers

5.  Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using Oracle Solaris Print Manager (Tasks)

6.  Setting Up Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)

7.  Administering Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)

8.  Customizing LP Printing Services and Printers (Tasks)

9.  Administering the LP Print Scheduler and Managing Print Requests (Tasks)

10.  Administering Printers on a Network (Tasks)

11.  Administering Character Sets, Filters, Forms, and Fonts (Tasks)

12.  Administering Printers by Using the PPD File Management Utility (Tasks)

13.  Printing in the Oracle Solaris Operating System (Reference)

14.  Troubleshooting Printing Problems in the Oracle Solaris OS (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Managing Printer Groups and Print Jobs (Task Map)

Table 4-1 Managing Printer Groups and Print Jobs by Using Print Manager for LP

Task
Description
For Information
Create a new printer group.
You can create custom printer groups that contain printers that meet various criteria. Printer groups are created and managed in the Group pane of the Print Manager window.
Create a new search group.
Search groups are printer groups that you create, based on the results of a search.
Create a new search group from filtered data.
You can create a new search group by using a filter in the Queue Pane of the Print Manager window. A search group created in this manner contains only those printers that meet the search criteria for the filter.
View or change properties of an existing search group.
You can view or change the properties of an existing search group that you created.
Delete a printer group.
You can use Print Manager for LP to delete printer groups that you have created. Printer groups are managed in the Group pane of the Print Manager window.
Delete a print job.
Print jobs can be managed and deleted in the Job pane of the Print Manager window.

Managing Printer Groups

Print Manager has three types of printer groups:

System groups

These groups cannot be created or deleted. However you can edit the contents of these groups. By default, there are two system groups, All Printers and Favorites.

  • All Printers

    This group contains all the printer queues that are currently known to the system. All other groups are views of the All Printers group.

    To delete a printer queue permanently, you must delete it from the All Printers group. Deleting a printer queue from another group only removes the queue from that group. The printer queue remains on the system until it is deleted from the All Printers group.

  • Favorites

    You can use the Favorites group to store the printer queues that you use most often.


    Note - When you print a document from an application, only the printer queues in your Favorites group are shown in the application's Print dialog. If your Favorites group is empty, the printer queues in the All Printers group are shown in the application's Print dialog instead.


Regular groups

These groups are named groups to which you can copy or drag any printer that is known to the system. For example, you might have a Home or an Office printer group.

Search groups

These groups contain the results of searches that you perform. The contents of search groups are updated dynamically. For example, when a new local printer is connected, or a new network printer is discovered, its printer queue is automatically added to all of the search groups that have matching search criteria.

How to Create a New Printer Group

  1. From the Group menu, choose New Group.

    A new group with the default name, Untitled N, is created in the Group pane of the Print Manager window.

    • To create a new printer group by using a keyboard shortcut, press Ctrl+N
  2. Type a name for the new group.
  3. Press Enter to save the new group name. Press Esc to revert to the original name.

How to Create a New Search Group

  1. From the Group menu, choose New Search Group.

    A new search group with the default name, Untitled N, is created in the Group pane.

    The New Search Group dialog opens.

    • To create a new search group by using the toolbar, click the New Search Group button.
    • To create a new search group by using a keyboard shortcut, press Ctrl+S.
  2. In the Search Group Properties dialog:
    1. Enter the name of the search group in the Group name field.
    2. Choose whether you want to include printer queues that match any or all of your search terms by using the Show printers that match buttons.
    3. From the drop-down menus, select how you would like to search.
    4. To enter any additional search terms, click the Add ( +) button.

      If additional search terms are provided, the Remove (-) button is visible. To delete an entire search term (row), click the Remove (-) button.

    5. To create the new search group, click OK.

How to Create a New Search Group by Using a Queue Pane Filter

  1. In the Group pane, select a group that includes all of the printer queues you want to include in the new search group.
  2. Filter the Queue pane view by using the filter box that is located in the toolbar.
  3. From the filter box drop-down menu, select Save Filter as Search Group.

    A new search group with the default name you entered is created in the Group pane.

How to View or Change an Existing Search Group's Properties

  1. In the Group pane, select the search group.
  2. From the Group menu, choose Properties.

    The Search Group Properties dialog is displayed, allowing you to view or change the properties of the search group.

    • To change the name of search group, enter the new name in the Group name field.
    • Make any necessary changes to the search criteria.
    • To provide additional search terms, click the Add (+) button.

      If you provided additional search terms that you want to delete, the Remove (-) button is visible. To delete a search term (entire row), click the Remove (-) button.

  3. To save your changes, click OK.

How to Delete a Printer Group

You can delete printer groups and search groups that you have created.


Note - You cannot delete the All Printers or the Favorites groups.


  1. In the Group pane, select the group that you want to delete.
  2. From the Edit menu, choose Delete.
    • To delete a group by using the toolbar option, click the Delete button.
    • To delete a group by using a keyboard shortcut, press the Delete key.
  3. To permanently delete the group, click Yes in the confirmation alert that is displayed. To cancel, click No.

Managing Print Jobs by Using Print Manager for LP

You can manage print jobs in the Job pane of the Print Manager window.


Note - The Job pane is shown only if a single printer queue is selected in the Queue pane. If multiple queues are selected, the Job pane is automatically hidden. The pane reappears when you select a single printer queue again.


The job list for any printer queue can be opened in a separate Job List window. To open a Job List window for a particular printer queue, double-click the printer queue icon.

The Job pane and Job List windows are automatically updated every few seconds. You can also manually update the Job pane and the Job List window by selecting Refresh from the View menu or by clicking the Refresh button on the toolbar.

The Job List window allows you to view a list of print jobs that are currently queued for printing. You can open the Job List window by double-clicking a queue in the Queue Pane or by clicking the panel notification icon when one or more print jobs are processing normally. You can also open the window from the Print Manager window by choosing View -> Job List Only.

By default, when the Print Manager window opens, the Job pane for the default printer is shown. To view print jobs for another printer queue, select the printer queue whose jobs you want to view. The Job pane for the printer queue you selected is displayed. To view the job list only, click the Job List Only icon on the toolbar.

How to Delete a Print Job

  1. In the Queue pane, select the printer queue that is processing the print job you want to delete.

    The Job pane for the selected printer queue is displayed.

  2. In the Job pane, select the print job that you want to delete.
  3. From the Edit menu, choose Delete.
    • To delete a print job by using the toolbar, click the Delete button.
    • To delete a print job by using a keyboard shortcut, press Delete.
  4. To delete the print job, click Yes in the confirmation alert that is displayed. To leave the print job in the queue, click No.

    Note - You can only delete your own print jobs or print jobs from printer queues that you own.