System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

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.

Printer Definition 

Description 

Example 

Default Setting 

Required or Optional? 

Printer Name

Name of printer 

laser1

N/A 

Required to install an attached or network printer and to add access to a printer 

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 

Description

User defined string 

laser printer near breakroom

N/A 

Optional 

Printer Port

Device that the printer is attached to 

/dev/term/a

/dev/term/a

Required to install an attached printer 

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 

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 

Printer Make

Make of printer 

Lexmark 

N/A 

Required to install an attached printer or a network printer  

Printer Model

Model of printer 

Lexmark Optra E312 

N/A 

Required to install an attached printer or a network printer 

Printer Driver

Driver that is used by specifying PPD file 

Foomatic/PostScript 

N/A 

Required to install an attached printer or a network printer 

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 

Protocol

Protocol used to communicate with the printer 

TCP

BSD

Required to install a network printer  

Fault Notification

Specifies how to notify user of errors 

Mail to superuser

Write to superuser

Optional 

Default Printer 

Identifies the default printer 

N/A 

N/A 

Optional 

Always Print Banner 

Print banner with print job? 

N/A 

Banner is printed 

Optional 

User Access List

List of users allowed to print on the print server 

rimmer,lister

All users can print 

Optional