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System Administration Guide: Solaris Printing

ProcedureHow to Determine Which Printers Are Known to the System

  1. On the system that you want to get information about discovered printers, type:


    system% hal-find-by-capability --capability printer

    The output shows you all of the printers that have been discovered by the system.

    • To obtain additional details about discovered printers, type:


      zsh% for udi in $(hal-find-by-capability --capability printer) ;
do ; lshal --show $udi --long ; done

      Or, if you are using a shell that does not support the use of $(command), type:


      sh% for udi in `hal-find-by-capability --capability printer` ;
do ; lshal --show $udi --long ; done
Example 10–1 Determining Which Printers Are Known to the System

This example shows all of the devices discovered by the system, snoopy.


snoopy% hal-find-by-capability --capability printer
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_0_0/pci1022_7460_6/pci108e_534d_3_1/printer_2_printer_0
    snoopy%
Example 10–2 Obtaining Additional Details about Printers That Are Known to the System


    zsh% for udi in $(hal-find-by-capability --capability printer) ; \
do ; lshal --show $udi --long ; done udi = \
'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_0_0/pci1022_\
7460_6/pci108e_534d_3_1/printer_2_printer_0'
      info.claimed.uid = 24656  (0x6050)  (int)
      info.claimed.service = 'gnome-volume-manager'  (string)
      info.claimed = true  (bool)
      printer.commandset = {'PJL', 'MLC', 'BIDI-ECP', 'PCLXL', 'PCL',
    'PDF', 'PJL', 'MIME', 'POSTSCRIPT'} (string list)
      printer.description = 'Hewlett-Packard color LaserJet 4650'  (string)
      printer.serial = '00000D920NSL'  (string)
      printer.product = 'hp color LaserJet 4650'  (string)
      printer.vendor = 'Hewlett-Packard'  (string)
      printer.device = '/dev/printers/1'  (string)
      info.capabilities = {'printer'} (string list)
      info.category = 'printer'  (string)
      info.solaris.driver = 'usbprn'  (string)
      solaris.devfs_path =
    '/pci@0,0/pci1022,7460@6/pci108e,534d@3,1/printer@2:printer'  (string)
      info.product = 'printer'  (string)
      info.udi =
    '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_0_0/pci1022_7460_6/pci108e_534d_3_1/printer_2_printer_0'...)
      info.parent =
    '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_0_0/pci1022_7460_6/pci108e_534d_3_1/printer_2_if0_0'...)

    zsh%