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System Administration Guide: Printing Oracle Solaris 11 Express 11/10 |
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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)
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
Getting Started With Print Manager for LP
About the Print Manager Window
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)
The Print Manager for LP application is a GUI that you can use to manage local and remote printer queues, printer groups, and print jobs from the desktop. Print Manager enables you to perform many aspects of printer administration. You can launch Print Manager for LP from the Main Menubar on the desktop panel. See Getting Started With Print Manager for LP for instructions.
When you start the Print Manager for LP GUI, the Print Manager window opens. In some instances, you can open this window by clicking the panel notification icon that appears in the desktop panel or by choosing Printers from the panel notification icon's context menu. From here, you can create and manage printer queues, groups, and jobs, as well as view or change printer preferences and perform searches. See About the Print Manager Window.
When you plug a new USB printer into your computer, or when a new network printer is discovered by the system, a notification is displayed on the desktop and a configuration dialog automatically opens. This dialog allows you to finish configuring the new printer. For more information about the auto-discovery feature, see Adding Newly Discovered Printers by Using Print Manager for LP.
The panel notification icon is a printer icon that is displayed in panel notification area of the desktop to notify you when:
One or more print jobs are processing
One or more printers have been discovered
To get more information, click the printer icon.
If one or more print jobs are processing normally, a Job List window opens for each printer queue that has a pending print job.
If one or more printer queues have been discovered, the Printer Queue Properties dialog or the Print Manager application opens, allowing you to check the configuration of the new printer queues.
Note - Notification messages that are not manually closed disappear after 5 seconds.
Preferences for notification messages can be viewed and changed in the Printer Preferences dialog. For more information, see the Print Manager for LP online help.
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