Apple 12/600PS Making sure everything is working, Preparing your own workstation for printing

Step 4: Making sure everything is working

The best way to make sure everything is set up correctly is to print something. Before you can do that, you must set up your own workstation for printing, as described in the steps that follow. The procedure described here is intended to prepare for printing a sample page as quickly as possible; for more complete instructions, see “Getting UNIX Users Started Using the Printer,” later in this chapter.

Preparing your own workstation for printing

1Add the printer’s IP address and the printer’s IP name to your /etc/hosts file (if you haven’t already done so).

Use the same IP address and IP name that you assigned to the printer in the previous section.

2Add the printer to your /etc/printcap file as a remote printer.

You can add printcap options as you like. (To see the available options, look at your UNIX system’s man page for printcap.) Your entry should be similar to the following:

AppleLWTest[LaserWriter_12_600_PS]:\ :lp=:mx#0:rm=printer_IP_name:\ :rp=printer_queue_name:\ :sd=path_to_this_queue’s_spool_directory:\ :lf=path_to_this_queue’s_log_file

Replace printer_IP_name with the IP name you assigned to the printer. Replace path_to_this_queue’s_spool_directory with the pathname of the unique directory created for this queue. Replace path_to_this_queue’s_log_file with the unique pathname of the file where error information from the lpd command will be logged.

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