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System Administration Guide: Printing Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
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)
Introduction to Print Manager for LP
Notification of Printing Events in Oracle Solaris Desktop
Switching From CUPS to the LP Print Service
How to Enable Print Manager for LP
Managing Network Device Discovery Services (Task Map)
How Auto-Discovery of Devices Works
Issues With the Network-Attached Printer Discovery Service Under LP
How to Enable the Network Device Discovery Service From the Desktop
How to Enable Network Device Discovery Services by Using SMF
How to Determine Which Printers Are Known to the System
Managing Printers by Using Print Manager for LP (Task Map)
Adding Newly Discovered Printers by Using Print Manager for LP
How To Set Up Auto-Discovered Printers by Using Print Manager for LP
How to Manually Add a Printer by Using Print Manager for LP
Managing Printer Queues by Using Print Manager for LP
How to View or Change a Print Queue's Properties
How to Pause or Resume a Print Queue
Managing Printer Groups and Print Jobs (Task Map)
How to Create a New Printer Group
How to Create a New Search Group
How to Create a New Search Group by Using a Queue Pane Filter
How to View or Change an Existing Search Group's Properties
Managing Print Jobs by Using Print Manager for LP
Managing Print Manager for LP Behavior and Preferences (Task Map)
Setting Preferences That Determine How Print Manager for LP Behaves
Setting Preferences for Local USB Printer Discovery
Settings Preferences for Network-Attached Printer Discovery
Configuring Auto-Discovery Settings for Network-Attached Printers
5. Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using Oracle Solaris Print Manager (Tasks)
6. Setting Up Printers by Using LP Print Commands (Tasks)
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)
Note - If you are running the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release, before getting started with Print Manager for LP, make sure you have installed all required software packages and also enabled the LP print service. For more information, see Switching From CUPS to the LP Print Service.
From theMain Menubar on the desktop panel, choose System -> Administration -> Print Manager.
The Print Manager for LP GUI starts, and the Print Manager window opens.
The Print Manager window is divided into three panes: Queue, Group, and Job.
Queue Pane (Top right pane)
Shows the printers and printer queues in the currently-selected group and their current status. When you launch Print Manager, the Job pane for the default printer queue is displayed. To display the Job pane for another printer queue, select the printer in the Queue pane.
Group Pane (Left pane)
Allows you to organize printers into arbitrary collections, or by criteria, such as name, location, manufacturer and capability.
Job Pane (Bottom right pane when a printer queue is selected)
Shows the status of print jobs in the currently-selected printer queue.
Tip - You can have more than one Print Manager window open at any given time. Having more than one Print Manager window open at the same time can be useful to compare the contents of different groups or to drag and drop (move or copy) printer queues between various windows.
You can open a new Print Manager window in one of the following ways:
By choosing New Window from the View menu.
By double-clicking a group in the Group pane.
By right-clicking in the Group pane, then choosing Open in New Window.
When you close a single Print Manager window, any other open Print Manager windows remain open until you manually close them or quit Print Manager for LP.