System Administration Guide, Volume 2

Chapter 1 Managing Printing Services Topics

This section provides instructions for managing printing services in the Solaris environment. This section contains these chapters.

Chapter 2, Print Management (Overview)

Provides overview information for managing printing services on a network. This chapter provides information on print servers, print clients, and the LP print service.  

Chapter 3, Planning Printers on Your Network (Overview)

Provides overview information for planning printing services on a network, which includes information on allocating system resources and defining printers on a network. 

Chapter 4, Setting Up Printers (Tasks)

Provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a printer on a system and making it available to other systems on the network.  

Chapter 5, Administering Printers (Tasks)

Provides step-by-step instructions for administering printers, such as deleting printers, setting print policies, and managing print requests.  

Chapter 6, Managing Character Sets, Filters, Forms, and Fonts (Tasks)

Provides step-by-step instructions for setting up and maintaining character sets, print filters, forms, and fonts.  

Chapter 7, Customizing the LP Print Service (Tasks)

Provides step-by-step instructions for customizing the LP print service, such as adjusting printer port characteristics or adding a terminfo entry for a unsupported printer.

Chapter 8, LP Print Service Reference Information

Provides background information on the LP print service.