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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
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)
Starting with the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release, CUPS is the default print service. Subsequently, if you choose System -> Administration -> Print Manager from the GNOME Desktop, the CUPS Print Manager is started rather than Print Manager for LP.
To use Print Manager for LP, Oracle Solaris Print Manager, or the LP print commands to manage your printing environment, you must first install the following required software packages:
a2ps
foomatic-rip
foomatic-ppds
ghostscript
gnome-print
gnome-print-papi
gnu-gs-fonts-std
gtk-backend-papi
gutenprint
hplip
lipipp
ipp-listener
open-printing
print-client-commands
print-manager
/print/lp/print-manager/legacy
lp
postscript-lp-filter
ipp
lpd
gnu-gs-fonts-other
imagemagick
psutils
sunos4
Note - Starting with the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release, Oracle Solaris Print Manager cannot be started from the desktop. You can start Oracle Solaris Print Manager from the command line if the required software packages are first installed. The Oracle Solaris Print Manager software package is /print/lp/print-manager/legacy.
In addition, you must switch the active print service from CUPS to LP, which is described in How to Enable Print Manager for LP.
The following procedure describes how to install the software packages that are required to use the Print Manager for LP GUI and how to enable the LP print service.
Note - If you want to use either Oracle Solaris Print Manager or the LP print commands to manage your printing environment, use the same procedure.
$ su root
Typing this command runs the bash shell as the root user, without requiring a password. Note that the role must be assigned to your user account.
See the section, Switching From CUPS to the LP Print Service, for the required software packages.
# pkg install package1 package2 package3...
For instructions, see Updating Individual Software Packages on Your System by Using pkg Commands in Getting Started With Oracle Solaris 11 Express
# print-service -s lp
# /usr/sbin/printmgr&
Note - Starting with the Oracle Solaris 11 Express release, you can no longer start Oracle Solaris Print Manager from the GNOME Desktop.