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Oracle Solaris Administration: Common Tasks Oracle Solaris 11 Information Library |
1. Locating Information About Oracle Solaris Commands
2. Managing User Accounts and Groups (Overview)
3. Managing User Accounts and Groups (Tasks)
4. Booting and Shutting Down an Oracle Solaris System
5. Working With Oracle Configuration Manager
6. Managing Services (Overview)
9. Managing System Information (Tasks)
10. Managing System Processes (Tasks)
11. Monitoring System Performance (Tasks)
12. Managing Software Packages (Tasks)
14. Scheduling System Tasks (Tasks)
15. Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS (Tasks)
Setting Up Printers and Print Queues by Using CUPS
Managing Print Requests by Using CUPS
Setting Up Your Printing Environment to Work With CUPS
How to Set Up Your Printing Environment
Setting Up Your Printing Environment for an Upgrade
Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS Command-Line Utilities (Task Map)
Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS Command-Line Utilities
How to Set Up a Printer by Using the lpadmin Command
How to Set a Default Printer at the Command Line
How to Print to a Specified Printer
How to Verify the Status of Printers
How to Print a File to the Default Printer
How to Delete a Printer and Remove Printer Access
Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using the CUPS Web Browser Interface (Task Map)
Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using the CUPS Web Browser Interface
Requirements for Using the CUPS Web Browser Interface
Troubleshooting Issues With Accessing the CUPS Web Browser Interface
About the CUPS Print Manager GUI
Setting Up Printers by Using CUPS Print Manager (Task Map)
Setting Up Printers by Using CUPS Print Manager
How to Configure CUPS to Administer Remote Print Queues
How to Set Up a New Local Printer
Administering Printers by Using CUPS Print Manager (Task Map)
Administering Printers by Using CUPS Print Manager
Configurable Printer Properties
How to Modify the Properties of a Configured Printer
How to Copy a Printer Configuration
How to Unshare or Share a Printer
16. Managing the System Console, Terminal Devices, and Power Services (Tasks)
17. Managing System Crash Information (Tasks)
18. Managing Core Files (Tasks)
19. Troubleshooting System and Software Problems (Tasks)
20. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous System and Software Problems (Tasks)
This section describes how to administer printers by using CUPS Print Manager.
Use the options in the Printer Properties dialog to modify the properties of a configured printer. For instructions, see How to Modify the Properties of a Configured Printer.
The Printer Properties dialog includes the following six sections for configuring new and existing printers:
Settings
In the Settings section, you can configure the following properties:
Descriptive text about the printer.
A description of the physical location of the printer.
Information about the protocol that is used to access the printer. For example, you could use LPD to specify the RFC-1179 protocol or IPP to specify the Internet Printing Protocol.
Information about the make and model of the printer.
The default setting for the Make and Model option can be changed by clicking the Change button.
Information about the current status of the printer.
Contains the following options:
Print Test Page
Print Self-Test Page
Clean Print Heads
Policies
In the Policies section, you can configure the properties that control how a printer behaves.
Specifies the following printer states:
Enabled
Accepting Requests
Shared
Note that more than one state can be specified at the same time.
Specifies how the printer behaves during error conditions.
Specifies whether starting or ending banner pages are printed with each print job.
Access Control
The Allow or Deny lists determine which users can print to the printer.
Printer Options
In the Printer Options section, you can configure printer-specific options.
For example, for an HP LaserJet 3015, the following configurable options are displayed:
Imaging Options
Resolution Options
Watermark/Overlay
The number and types of options are determined by the PPD file that is associated with the specified printer.
Job Options
Determines the options that are associated with a print job, for example, the number of copies and page orientation, as well as certain image options. The number and types of options are determined by the PPD file that is associated with the specified printer.
The following procedure describes how to modify the basic configuration of an existing printer. For a complete description of all of the properties that you can modify by using the CUPS Print Manager GUI, see Configurable Printer Properties.
$ system-config-printer
The Printer configuration dialog is displayed listing all of the configured printers and any newly detected printers.
The Printer Properties dialog appears. The Properties dialog contains five separate sections, each of which contains properties that are grouped by category. By default, the Settings section of the dialog is displayed.
In the Settings section, you can modify the following settings:
Description
Location
Device URI
Make and Model
For a description of the available devices, see Selecting a Print Device.
You are returned to the Settings section.
Note - By default, CUPS uses the Select Printer From Database option and selects the appropriate printer-make for you. Alternatively, you can provide your own PPD file. For instructions, see Step 3 of How to Set Up a New Local Printer.
Use the new PPD (Postscript Printer Description) as is.
Try to copy the option settings over from the old PPD.
You are returned to the Settings section of the Printer Properties dialog.
$ system-config-printer
The Printer configuration dialog appears, listing all of the configured printers and any newly detected printers.
$ system-config-printer
The Printer configuration dialog appears, listing all of the configured printers and any newly detected printers.
$ system-config-printer
The Printer configuration dialog appears, listing all of the configured printers and any newly detected printers.
By default, new printers are configured with the Share option enabled, which means they are published on the local network. This procedure describes how to unshare a printer or enable an unshared printer.
$ system-config-printer
The Printer configuration dialog appears, listing all of the configured printers and any newly detected printers.
When you configure a new printer by using CUPS Print Manager, the printer is enabled by default. This procedure describes how to disable or enable a printer.
$ system-config-printer
The Printer configuration dialog appears, listing all of the configured printers and any newly detected printers.
$ system-config-printer
The Printer configuration dialog appears, listing all of the configured printers and any newly detected printers.
The Document Print Status (printer-name) window appears, listing all of the print jobs for the specified printer.
In this window, you can view the following information:
Job
User
Document
Printer size
Time submitted
Status
Alternatively, you can right-click the name of a print job, and from the list of available options, select an action.
You can view the following actions:
Cancel
Hold
Release
Reprint