Example—Adding a New Network Printer With PPD Files by Using LP Print Service Commands

This example shows how to add a new network printer with PPD files. The -n option to the lpadmin command enables you to add a new print queue by specifying PPD files. The commands used in this example must be executed on the print server. The following information is used as an example only. The information that you provide will vary.

• Printer name : luna1

• Device: /dev/null

• Interface: /usr/lib/lp/model/netstandard_foomatic

• Network printer access name: nimquat:9100

• Protocol: tcp

• Timeout: 5

• File content type: postscript

• PPD file: /usr/lib/lp/model/ppd/manufacturer/ppdfile

  # lpadmin -p luna1 -v /dev/null 1 # lpadmin -p luna1 -m netstandard_foomatic 2 # lpadmin -p luna1 -o dest=nimquat:9100 -o protocol=tcp -o timeout=5 3 # lpadmin -p luna1 -I postscript 4 # lpadmin -p luna1 -n /usr/lib/lp/model/ppd/manufacturer/ppdfile 5 # lpadmin -p luna1 -D "Second floor color printer"6 # cd /etc/lp/fd # for filter in *.fd;do > name=`basename $filter .fd` > lpfilter -f $name -F $filter > done 7 # accept luna1 destination "luna1" now accepting requests # enable luna1 8 printer "luna1" now enabled # lpstat -p luna1 9 printer luna1 is idle. enabled since Mon Apr 19 15:31:15 2004. available.

1. Defines printer name and sets the device to /dev/null

2. Defines the interface script for network printers

3. Sets the destination, protocol, and timeout

4. Specifies the file content types to which the printer can print to directly

5. Specifies the PPD file to use

6. Adds a description for the printer

7. Adds print filters to the print server

8. Accepts print requests for the printer and enables the printer

9. Verifies that the printer is ready to print