Printer Port
When you install a printer or later change its setup, you can specify the device, or the printer port, to which the printer is connected, by using Solaris Print Manager or the lpadmin -p printer-name -v device-name command.
Most systems have two serial ports and a parallel port or USB ports. Unless you add ports, you cannot directly connect more than two serial printers and a parallel printer or two USB printers to one system.
You can select the following printer port types with Solaris Print Manager. These options give you as much flexibility as the lpadmin command.
|
Printer Port Type |
Corresponding Device Name Options |
|---|---|
|
Serial |
/dev/term/a |
|
Serial |
/dev/term/b |
|
Parallel |
/dev/printers/0 —> /dev/ecpp0 |
|
USB |
/dev/printers/[1–9] |
|
Specify any port name that the print server recognizes |
Other |
The LP print service initializes the printer port by using the settings from the standard printer interface program. For more information about printer interface programs, see Managing Print Filters. If you have a parallel printer or a serial printer for which the default settings do not work, see Adjusting Printer Port Characteristics for information about customizing the port settings.
x86 only –
If you use multiple ports on an IA based system, only the first port is enabled by default. The second and any subsequent ports are disabled by default. To use more than one port, you must manually edit the device driver port configuration file for each additional asy (serial) port or lp (parallel) port. The pathnames for the IA port configuration files are:
/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/asy.conf
/platform/i86pc/kernel/drv/lp.conf
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