USB Printer Support

You can use Solaris Print Manager to set up a USB printer that is attached to a SPARC or IA system with USB ports.

The new logical device names for USB printers are:

/dev/printers/[0...N]*  

When you add a USB printer to a printer server, select one of these devices for a USB printer under Printer Port on the Add New Attached Printer screen. For more information on using Solaris Print Manager to set up printers, see Chapter 4, Setting Up Printers (Tasks).

Although the new Solaris USB printer driver supports all USB printer-class compliant printers, a list of recommended PostScript^TM printers is in the usbprn(7D) man page.

The usbprn driver is compliant with non-PostScript printers that utilize third-party PostScript conversion packages like GhostScript. You can obtain conversion packages from the Solaris Software Companion CD, available at http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/package.html.

For information and cautions about hot-plugging USB printers, see the Notes and Diagnostics sections of the usbprn(7D) man page.