Ricoh AP2610N Viewing the Printer Status with lpq and lpstat, System V UNIX, Soralis, HP-UX

Printer Status

Printer Status

You can use the following commands to have information and the printer status	1
displayed or copied to a file.

Use the lpq or lp command to display the status of the printer or information about print jobs.

Use the rsh, rcp or ftp commands to get more detailed information from the printer.

Viewing the Printer Status with lpq and lpstat

❖BSD UNIX workstation, Linux

%lpq -Pprinter_name

For example: Printer name is np

%lpq -Pnp

❖System V UNIX, Soralis, HP-UX

%lpstat -oprinter_name

For example: Printer name is np

%lpstat -o np

Viewing the Printer Status with rsh and ftp

Use the rsh or ftp command to display the status of printer or information about print jobs using specified parameters.

You can use these commands for BSD and System V UNIX.

Note

❒If your workstation is HP-UX, use the remsh command instead of the rsh.

%rsh host_name parameter

%ftp host_name

User user_name password:

ftp> get parameter -

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