Adding Printers in OS/2

Creating 1.

Double-click the Templates folder, then drag the Printer icon out to the

a Print Queue

 

Workplace Shell (or into a folder) while holding the right mouse button

(OS/2 version 2.x

 

down.

 

 

 

 

 

and OS/2 Warp)

2.

Type a name of your choice in the Name field.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ports available

 

USB port

 

Parallel port

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AXIS 5500

 

US1

 

 

 

AXIS 5550

 

US1

 

LP1

3.Select \PIPE\<name>.<port>, from the Port list, and select a printer driver suitable for your printer from the Standard Printer list.

4.Click OK to confirm the printer definition.

Sharing the A print queue must be made a shared resource before it can be accessed Print Queue from other clients or servers. The following three examples show how you

can share your printer resources:

Open an OS/2 window and issue the following command:

NET SHARE <queue_name> /PRINT

Where <queue_name> is the name of the queue created on the previous side.

To share a printer resource when using OS/2 Warp with IBM Peer service, follow the steps below:

1.Click the right mouse button on the printer object.

2.Select Share and then Start sharing. In the dialog box, enter a Description.

3.Select the check-boxStart sharing at LAN workstation start-up.

4.Click OK.

To share a printer resource when using LAN server 4.0, follow the steps below:

1.Open LAN Server Administration.

2.Open your domain and then Resource Definition.

3.Drag and drop a printer from the template.

4.Enter the Alias name, select a Server name and the previously created Spooler Queue Name.

5.Click OK.

The setup is completed and you can now print through your print server.

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