Setting Up Printing (Task Map)
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Task |
Description |
For Instructions |
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Add a new attached printer by using Solaris Print Manager. |
Use Solaris Print Manager to make the printer available for printing after you physically attach the printer to a system. |
How to Add a New Attached Printer by Using Solaris Print Manager |
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Add a new attached printer by using LP print service commands. |
Use LP print service commands to make the printer available for printing after you physically attach the printer to a system. |
How to Add a New Attached Printer by Using LP Print Service Commands |
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Add access to a printer. |
Use Solaris Print Manager to add printer access on the print client. | |
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(Optional) Set up a .printers file. |
Use a $HOME/.printers file so that users can establish their own custom printer aliases. | |
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Add a new network printer by using vendor-supplied tools. |
Use Printer Vendor Supplied Tools to configure the network printer after you physically connect the printer to the network. After you physically connect the printer to the network, configure the network printer by using LP print service commands. |
How to Add a New Network Printer With Printer Vendor-Supplied Tools
How to Add a New Network Printer by Using LP Print Service Commands |
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Add a new network printer by using Solaris Print Manager. |
Use Solaris Print Manager to make a printer available for printing over the network. |
How to Add a New Network Printer by Using Solaris Print Manager |
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Add a new network printer by using LP print service commands. |
Use LP print service commands to make a printer availabe for printing over the network. |
How to Add a New Network Printer by Using LP Print Service Commands |
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(Optional) Turn off banner pages. |
You can turn off banner pages so that the banner pages are never printed. | |
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(Optional) Set up fault alerts. |
You can set up more specific fault alerts for the printer than the fault alerts provided by Solaris Print Manager. | |
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(Optional) Set up fault recovery. |
You can set up how a printer should recover after it faults. | |
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(Optional) Limit access to a printer. |
Solaris Print Manager enables you to set up an allow list. If you want to limit the access of a few users to the printer, you might want to set up a deny list. |
Setting Up Printing by Using Solaris Print Manager
Solaris Print Manager is a Java-based graphical user interface that enables you to manage local and remote printer configuration. This tool can be used in the following name service environments: LDAP, NIS, NIS+, NIS+ with Federated Naming Service (xfn), and files. You must be logged in as superuser to use this tool.
You can use Solaris Print Manager to set up print servers (Add New Attached Printer or Add a Network Printer) and print clients (Add Access to Printer). A local or attached printer is a printer which is physically cabled to the print server. A network printer is physically attached to the network. You can use Solaris Print Manager to add a local printer or a network printer. Adding access to a printer, or adding remote access, is the process of giving print clients (all those machines which are not the server) access to the printer.
Printer Setup With Solaris Print Manager
The following table describes each printer attribute to help you determine the information that is needed to set up a printer with Solaris Print Manager.
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Printer Definition |
Description |
Example |
Default Setting |
Required or Optional? |
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Printer Name |
Name of printer |
laser1 |
N/A |
Required to install an attached or network printer and to add access to a printer |
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Printer server |
Name of print server |
venus |
N/A |
Required to install an attached or network printer and to add access to a printer — This field is filled in by the tool |
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Description |
User defined string |
laser printer near breakroom |
N/A |
Optional |
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Printer Port |
Device that the printer is attached to |
/dev/term/a |
/dev/term/a |
Required to install an attached printer |
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Printer Type |
Type of printer |
unknown |
PostScript |
Required to install an attached printer or a network printer for releases prior to Solaris 9 9/04 |
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File Content Type |
Content to be printed |
any |
PostScript |
Required to install an attached printer or a network printer for releases prior to Solaris 9 9/04 |
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Printer Make |
Make of printer |
Lexmark |
N/A |
Required to install an attached printer or a network printer |
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Printer Model |
Model of printer |
Lexmark Optra E312 |
N/A |
Required to install an attached printer or a network printer |
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Printer Driver |
Driver that is used by specifying PPD file |
Foomatic/PostScript |
N/A |
Required to install an attached printer or a network printer |
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Destination |
Destination name for the network printer |
For examples, see Selecting the Destination (or Network Printer Access) Name |
N/A |
Required to install a network printer |
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Protocol |
Protocol used to communicate with the printer |
TCP |
BSD |
Required to install a network printer |
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Fault Notification |
Specifies how to notify user of errors |
Mail to superuser |
Write to superuser |
Optional |
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Default Printer |
Identifies the default printer |
N/A |
N/A |
Optional |
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Always Print Banner |
Print banner with print job? |
N/A |
Banner is printed |
Optional |
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User Access List |
List of users allowed to print on the print server |
rimmer,lister |
All users can print |
Optional |
Solaris Print Manager and Special Characters
Solaris Print Manager checks user input for the various text fields in the input screens. There are two types of checking: general illegal input and input that is illegal for specific fields.
Solaris Print Manager does not accept the following characters as input, except for the help screens:
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Shell metacharacters, such as “\$^&*(){}`'|;:?<>, except for the destination field on the network printer screen, which accepts colons (:)
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Multibyte characters
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Pound signs (#), spaces, or tabs, except the description field, which accepts tabs
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