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Preface

1.  Introduction to Printing in the Oracle Solaris Operating System

2.  Planning for Printing (Tasks)

3.  Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS (Tasks)

4.  Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using Print Manager for LP (Tasks)

5.  Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using Oracle Solaris Print Manager (Tasks)

6.  Setting Up Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)

Setting Up Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Task Map)

Setting Up Directly Attached Printers by Using LP Print Commands

Specifying a PPD File When Setting Up a Printer

How to Add a New Directly Attached Printer by Using LP Print Commands

How to Add a Print Queue With localhost Specified as the Host Name (LP Print Commands)

Setting Up Network-Attached Printers by Using LP Print Commands

Oracle Support for Network Printers

Invoking Network Printer Support

Selecting the Printer Node Name

Selecting the Destination Name (Also Called the Network Printer Access Name)

Selecting the Network Printing Protocol

Setting the Timeout Value

Managing Network-Attached Printer Access

How to Add a New Network-Attached Printer by Using LP Print Commands

How to Set Up a Remote Printer That is Connected to a Print Server by Using IPP

Adding a New Network-Attached Printer by Using Printer Vendor-Supplied Software

How to Add a Attached Network Printer by Using Printer Vendor-Supplied Tools

Setting Up and Administering Printers on a Print Client (Task Map)

Adding Printer Access by Using LP Print Commands

How to Add Printer Access by Using LP Print Commands

Setting Up a .printers File

How to Set Up a .printers File

How to Delete a Printer and Remove Printer Access by Using LP Print Commands

7.  Administering Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)

8.  Customizing LP Printing Services and Printers (Tasks)

9.  Administering the LP Print Scheduler and Managing Print Requests (Tasks)

10.  Administering Printers on a Network (Tasks)

11.  Administering Character Sets, Filters, Forms, and Fonts (Tasks)

12.  Administering Printers by Using the PPD File Management Utility (Tasks)

13.  Printing in the Oracle Solaris Operating System (Reference)

14.  Troubleshooting Printing Problems in the Oracle Solaris OS (Tasks)

Glossary

Index

Setting Up Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Task Map)

Task
Description
For Instructions
Add a new directly attached printer by using LP print 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 Directly Attached Printer by Using LP Print Commands
Use the lpadmin command to add a printer queue with localhost specified as the host name.
Use the lpadmin command with the -s option to specify localhost as the host name when setting up a local print queue. This modification was added to enable print servers to maintain the same print host name, localhost, independent of the machine host name.
How to Add a Print Queue With localhost Specified as the Host Name (LP Print Commands)
Add a new network-attached printer by using LP print service commands.
Use LP print commands add a new network-attached printer.
How to Add a New Network-Attached Printer by Using LP Print Commands
Add a remote print queue for a printer that is connected to a Oracle Solaris print server by using IPP.

To add access to a remote print queue by using IPP, there are two methods that you can do one of the following:

  • Use the lpadmin command.

  • Use the lpset command.
How to Set Up a Remote Printer That is Connected to a Print Server by Using IPP
Add a new network-attached printer by using the printer vendor-supplied software.
Use Printer vendor supplied tools to configure a network-attached printer after you physically connect the printer to the network.
How to Add a Attached Network Printer by Using Printer Vendor-Supplied Tools
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