Printronix Network Interface Card Printing From AIX, Printing With FTP, NIC IP address, Printing From AIX, NIC destination/queue

Printing From AIXPrinting From AIX

Version 4.0 and higher of AIX® offers LPR/LPD support for network printing. This means, to set up a new printer under this operating system, you only need to define these two parameters:

1.NIC IP address. The IP address or host name of the print server to which you want to print.

2.NIC destination/queue. A pre-defined name on the print server telling the device to which I/O port to send the jobs. Most likely, you will use d1prn for the PRN.

Printing With FTP

Print jobs can also be sent to the NIC using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP). To do this:

1.On your network station, change to the directory containing the file you want to print.

2.Open an FTP session with the NIC. Syntax:

ftp NICIPaddress

3.Log in as root.

4.At the password prompt, press ENTER (since there is no default password).

5.Change to the dest directory. Syntax:

cd dest

6.List the contents of this directory using the dir command and determine which destination/queue you would like to send the print job through. Most likely, you will select d1prn for the PRN port.

7.Change to this destination directory. Example:

cd d1prn

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