Table of Contents
.printers File|
Task |
Description |
For Instructions |
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Add a new attached printer by using Solaris Print Manager. |
Use Solaris Print Manager to make the printer available for printing after you physically attach the printer to a system. |
How to Add a New Attached Printer by Using Solaris Print Manager |
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Add a new attached printer by using LP print service 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 Attached Printer by Using LP Print Service Commands |
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Add access to a printer. |
Use Solaris Print Manager to add printer access on the print client. |
How to Add Printer Access by Using Solaris Print Manager |
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(Optional) Set up a |
Use a |
How to Set Up a |
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Add a new network printer by using vendor-supplied tools. |
Use Printer Vendor Supplied Tools to configure the network printer after you physically connect the printer to the network. After you physically connect the printer to the network, configure the network printer. |
How to Add a Network Printer by Using Printer Vendor-Supplied Tools |
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Add a new network printer by using Solaris Print Manager. |
Use Solaris Print Manager to make a printer available for printing over the network. |
How to Add a New Network Printer by Using Solaris Print Manager |
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Add a new network printer by using LP print service commands. |
Use LP print service commands to make a printer available for printing over the network. |
How to Add a New Network Printer by Using LP Print Service Commands |
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Turn off banner pages. |
You can optionally turn off banner pages so that the banner pages are never printed. |
How to Turn Off Banner Pages |
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Set up fault alerts. |
You can optionally set up more specific fault alerts for the printer than the fault alerts provided by Solaris Print Manager. |
How to Set Fault Alerts for a Printer |
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Set up fault recovery. |
You can optionally set up how a printer should recover after it faults. |
How to Set Printer Fault Recovery |
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Limit access to a printer. |
Solaris Print Manager enables you to optionally set up an allow list. If you want to limit the access of a few users to the printer, you might want to set up a deny list. |
How to Limit User Access to a Printer |
Solaris Print Manager is a Java-based graphical user interface that enables you to manage local and remote printer configuration. This tool can be used in the following name service environments: LDAP, NIS, NIS+, and files. You must be logged in as superuser to use this tool.
You can use Solaris Print Manager to set up print servers (Add New Attached Printer or Add a Network Printer) and print clients (Add Access to Printer). An attached printer is a printer that is physically cabled to the print server. A network printer is physically attached to the network. You can use Solaris Print Manager to add an attached printer or a network printer. Adding access to a printer, or adding remote access, is the process of giving print clients (all those machines which are not the server) access to the printer.
The following table describes each printer attribute to help you determine the information that is needed to set up a printer with Solaris Print Manager.
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Printer Definition |
Description |
Example |
Default Setting |
Required or Optional? |
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Name of printer |
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N/A |
Required to install an attached or network printer and to add access to a printer |
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Name of print server |
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N/A |
Required to install an attached or network printer and to add access to a printer — This field is filled in by the tool |
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User defined string |
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N/A |
Optional |
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Device that the printer is attached to |
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Required to install an attached printer |
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Type of printer |
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Required to install an attached printer or a network printer without PPD files |
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Content to be printed |
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Required to install an attached printer or a network printer without PPD files |
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Make of printer |
Lexmark |
N/A |
Required to install an attached printer or a network printer with PPD files |
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Model of printer |
Lexmark Optra E312 |
N/A |
Required to install an attached printer or a network printer with PPD files |
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Driver that is used by specifying PPD file |
Foomatic/PostScript |
N/A |
Required to install an attached printer or a network printer with PPD files |
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Destination name for the network printer |
For examples, see Selecting the Destination Name (Also Called the Network Printer Access Name) |
N/A |
Required to install a network printer |
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Protocol used to communicate with the printer |
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Required to install a network printer |
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Specifies how to notify user of errors |
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Optional |
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Default Printer |
Identifies the default printer |
N/A |
N/A |
Optional |
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Banner Page Drop-Down Menu:
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Print banner?
Print banner? User selectable option, turned on by default. To turn banner printing off, use lp command with appropriate option. Never print banner? |
N/A |
Banner is printed
Banner is printed unless turned off by using lp command with appropriate option
Banner is not printed |
Banner page printing turned on by default unless another option is specified within the Solaris Print Manager pull-down menu |
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List of users allowed to print on the print server |
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All users can print |
Optional |
Solaris Print Manager checks user input for the various text fields in the input screens. There are two types of checking: general illegal input and input that is illegal for specific fields.
Solaris Print Manager does not accept the following characters as input, except for the help screens:
Shell metacharacters, such as “\$^&*(){}`'|;:?<>, except for the destination field on the network printer screen, which accepts colons (:)
Multibyte characters
Pound signs (#), spaces, or tabs, except the description field, which accepts tabs