Digi MIL-3000FTX manual 2.2Creating a New Printer, 2.3Creating a Print Queue

4.3.2.2Creating a New Printer

1.Under the “Object” pull-down window, click Create. The New Object window appears.

2.Select Printer and click OK.

3.Type in the Printer Name and click Create.

4.3.2.3Creating a Print Queue

1.Under the “Object” pull-down menu, click Create. The New Object menu appears.

2.Select Print Queue and click OK.

3.The Create Print Queue menu appears. Select the Select Object icon.

4.In the “Select Object” window, highlight the Directory Context where the print queue will be held and click OK. The Create Print Queue window appears with the selected object filled in the “Print Queue Volume” box.

5.Type in the Print Queue Name and click Create.

–Queue name (and context) is less than 256 characters

–All queues are serviced by the printer attached to FastPort’s parallel port

–To force FastPort to service the queue with the serial port, the queue name must end with an -S.

–For a 4-port FastPort, force it to service the queue with the second parallel or second serial port, append the queues with -P2or -S2, respectively.

A new print server, printer, and print queue has been created. Continue to the next procedure to connect these objects.

4.3.2.4Connecting the print server to a Printer

1.In the “Context Tree” menu, select the print server created.

2.Click Assignments in the following window (Figure 4-2).

3.In the next window, click Add.

4.Highlight the printer created and click OK.

MIL-3000FTX Series of FastPort Print Servers 4-6