Mackie V7.0 Selecting a printer, Specifying a printer or printer group for a print job, Pc pcl

Producing Output with Xprint V7.0 Selecting a printer

3.3Selecting a printer

Xprint V7.0 allows you to print documents on any printer within your Xprint V7.0 domain. You can select any printer for your printout for which you have the required privileges.

There are two possible ways of selecting printers or printer groups for printing in Xprint V7.0. Firstly, you can specify one specific printer (group) for a print job, and secondly, you can define one or more printers as your personal default printers:

If you do not specify a specific printer (group) for your print job, Xprint V7.0 will select a suitable printer according to the options specified for the print job (e.g. double-sided printing, landscape format).

Specifying a printer or printer group for a print job

You can select the printer on which you want to print your document according to various criteria. There are the following options:

-dedestination

This option allows you to select a printer or printer group. If you select a printer group, Xprint V7.0 sends your job to a device which belongs to this group. Xprint V7.0 has a load balancing procedure which ensures the jobs will be distributed effectively between the printers in the group. You can display a list of the available printers via the xpshow -devcommand. The available printer groups can be displayed with the xpshow -dgrcommand.

-pc pcl

Instead of selecting a specific printer by its name, you can also use the printer capability list pcl as a criterion, e.g. POSTSCRIPT, HP-LASERJETor HP-DESKJET. In this case, Xprint V7.0 sends your job to any available printer which uses the selected PCL.

Addressing a printer via a gateway

You can also select a printer (group) which is not defined in your Xprint V7.0 domain, provided it can be reached via a gateway. This applies to printers/printer groups which are available in other Xprint V7.0 domains or which are connected to computers running the DPRINT printer spooler (for BS2000 systems) or the BSD printer spooler (for BSD-UNIX systems and other systems with an lpd print server).

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