How to Add a Printer Description

1. Log in as superuser or lp on the print server.

2. Add a printer description by using the lpadmin command.

   # lpadmin -p printer-name -D "comment"

   p printer-name	Name of the printer for which you are adding a description.
   -D "comment"	Specifies the characteristics of the printer, such as location or administrative contact. Enclose characters that the shell might interpret (like *, ?, \, !, ^) in single quotation marks.

   The printer description is added in the print server's /etc/lp/printers/printer-name/comment file.

3. Verify the Description information is correct.

   $ lpstat -p printer-name -l

Example--Adding a Printer Description

In the following example, the command adds a printer description for the printer luna.

# lpadmin -p luna -D "Nathans office"