Hitachi Koki USA DDC 35n user manual Installing and Printing on an AIX Risc System/6000

6.2 UNIX Printing

The SCO UNIX lp system uses the lpadmin maintenance command to configure a printer (there is no /etc/printcap file). The specific commands to do this are:

#lpadmin -p <printer_name> -v /dev/nic/

<printer_name>

Note

•Your host may require you to specify the model by using the -i com- mand.

#enable <printer_name>

#accept <printer_name>

You can also use other options for the lpadmin command. See your system documentation for details. Note that the printer name must be the same as the one you entered during NIC installation. SCO supplies the sam program as an alternative to configure the printer.

When using sam, specify everything as if the printer were directly connected to /dev/nic/<printer_name>.

The software installed with your SCO system can satisfy most of your printing needs. SCO supplies ASCII-to-PostScript filters and the system will invoke them automatically if you define the content type of the printer as PostScript. The SCO UNIX lp system also sup- plies interface scripts that produce PostScript banners. Use the lpfil- ter command to define new filters and content types if necessary. The full power and flexibility of the lp print service is now apparent. Your printing across the network is completely transparent.

6.2.3.9Installing and Printing on an AIX RISC System/6000

The AIX printing subsystem is driven by the qdaemon program. The qdaemon uses configuration information stored in the /usr/lpd/qcon- fig file to manage queues and route jobs to the proper devices. This information includes entries for each virtual printer and physical device known to the system.

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