How to Adjust the Printer Port Characteristics

1. Log in as superuser, lp, or assume an equivalent role on the print server.

2. Adjust the printer port characteristics.

   # lpadmin -p printer-name -o "stty=options"

   -p printer-name	Name of the printer for which you are adjusting the port characteristics.
   -o "stty=options”	Sets the port characteristic (stty option) specified by options. You can change more than one stty option setting with this command. Enclose each option in single quotation marks and use a space to separate the options. For a complete list of options, see stty(1). Table 7–1 shows the default stty settings used by the LP print service.

3. Verify that the printer port characteristics have been changed.

   # lpstat -p printer-name -l

Examples—Adjusting the Printer Port Characteristics

The following example shows how to set the port characteristics for the printer luna. The parenb option enables parity checking/generation, parodd sets odd parity generation, and cs7 sets the character size to 7 bits.

# lpadmin -p luna -o "stty='parenb parodd cs7'"

The following example shows how to set the terminal baud rate to 19200 for the printer venus.

# lpadmin -p venus -o "stty=19200"