If you want to create a portable document format pdf, you can typically. Hi, can any one provide me the steps to configure lan printer on aix 6. Configuring printing for unix, linux, or mac os x system. How can i clone aix print queus solutions experts exchange. This email and files transmitted are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity. Also depending on what kind of connection the queue has, the file and or. Sco printer configuration file hello, i am working on servers running sco openserver 5 and i tend to setup a lot of servers.
Aix 5 print queue i have setup a printer and queue using smit and i have set the default tray to 4. The print queue configuration files are no different. I would like to set up a printer device queue in aix 4. This has been tested using different aix levels, and has worked great.
The prtconf command is available the current version of aix 4. Queue queue name used in qconfig file dev queue device name used in qconfig file status current status of the queue job job number of this print job files name of file being printed user aix user id that owns the print job. The runonce setting file is used to control the pdf creation from another program. The format of the global and userspecific printer configuration file is the same. The display generated by the lpstat command contains two entries for remote queues.
I am trying to redirect reports from a software program that are meant to be printed. I am wondering if mkdev lp to create printers has a file that i can just copy and paste from an exisiting server to a new upgrade server. Table 1 provides a few switches that you can use when executing piomkpq. The spooling subsystem first displays remote print requests on the local queue. What i am trying to find out is if there is a way to set the next tray it trys to use if tray 4 is empty to tray 3, then tray 2, then tray 1.
Printing in aix offers a myriad of configuration and setup options. On aix, most system configuration files can be found centrally in etc. These files contain comments explaining how to do this search for raw. Note the aix operating system does not support printers that are attached to your system through. Printing from a unix or linux system application server. Can any one guide me how i can get total number of jobs on this queue. Converting aix print queues to linux chainringcircus. You can also configure a printer without adding a print queue. Use a file name of to specify printing from the standard input. The program that controls spooling on aix is called the qdaemon, and the qdaemon uses the queue information in etcqconfig to determine what to do with each job that is submitted. The settings in this file take precedence over the settings in the global configuration file. Listing 3 is an example of what the configuration files look like in aix. How to easily configure tcpip on your aix system summary.
Printer config files where the config file for each printer exists. So i wanted to test adding and deleting a printer from cups on the command. For those running older versions of aix, heres a list of commands that provide the same information. Creating an aix print queue using smit zebra technologies. Descript ion use arrow keys local host internal print external print remote ho st xstation to scroll to to to to printer. I have added a nt shared printer which is on windows 2003, i have connected the aix 7 print queue to the windows 2003 shared hp printer fine, but it only prints gibberish. Lists all configured printer and plotter queue device names within a specified queue. The second entry contains the clients local queue name followed by the remote queue name. I am trying to print pdf reports generated through xml publisher onto a remote printer via a windows print server. A runonce settings file is only valid for one print job and will be removed automatically when it is read. Printing for fun and profit under aix 5l ibm redbooks. To handle print jobs with maximum efficiency, the aix operating system places each job into a queue to await printer availability.
Learn how to install, configure, share, test and use printer in linux including a basic overview of cups common unix printing system and ipp internet printing. For a complete list of switches, please take a look at man piomkpq. The disable command deactivates the named printers, disabling them from printing requests submitted by lp. Hi, i have one queue that have status queue and 10 jobs are waiting. Note an alternative to the configuration described on this page is to use sgd pdf printing. Do i need to configure the log for each individual print queue or only single log file will be enough for all the logs.
The first entry contains the clients local queue and local device name and its status information. The printers were originally set up using smit but there seems no. As the printer produces the output from one file, the system processes the next job in the queue. The system can save output from one or more files in the queue. If the print job originates on aix with lp or the aix equivalent, maybe setting up the. I am trying to print pdf files from an aix 7 server. You configure printer queues with the sgd printer queue installation script. Does any one know how to use command change word size and make it fit on the page to print text file.
Printing for fun and profit under aix 5l march 2001 sg24601800 international technical support organization. You can generate the pdfs a specific topic or section by following the instructions in the create your own pdf of a page topic. I want a way to send all the current and future print jobs of a getting fixed printer to another print queue. The simplest way to print in linux is to cat a file to the printing device, like this. The lpdest and printer environment variables are checked first. This document does not apply to versions below aix 4. End user sends a request to print a file using any of the print commands lp,lpr,qprt,enq to the print queue. In order to get this information to a file, i need the file to appear as a print queue.
On unix like operating systems, the lp command prints files. Smit print spooling aix print spoolingadd a print queue. Note an alternative to the configuration described below is to use sgd pdf printing. I have successfully registered the printer queue on my box as below. This is particularly useful if you have more than just a few printer queues configured, and configuring all printer queues manually would be too cumbersome. How to configure printer server in linux this tutorial explains how to configure printer server in linux step by step with practical examples. This file contains the settings for an individual user regardless of which sgd server they print through. By default, any requests that are currently printing on the designated printers will be reprinted in their entirety either on the same printer or on another member of the same class of printers. Initial printer configuration ibm knowledge center. Scribd is the worlds largest social reading and publishing site. Printing pdf from aix 7 solutions experts exchange.
The etcqconfig file describes the queues and devices available for use by both. If you did not print a test page when you initially set up the print queue, you can always do so from the test menu in the red hat printer configuration tool. While most ibm aix administrators know how to set up print queues and. If during a print request enqqprtlpr the spooler would detect a discrepancy between qconfig and qconfig.
When renaming a print queue i tend to look at etcqconfig and make a note of the print queue characteristics, then remove and readd it with the new name. To configure a local printer, a print and queue device need to be created. First give the printer a name and ip address in the etchosts file. The request goes to varspoollpdqdir a copy of the request goes to the spool directory varspoolqdaemon. Listing 1 shows the location of the printer queue configuration files.
Printer and printer data stream attributes reside in colon files. What this command does is read the file my file to print. Creating a print queue in aix via command line is extremely easy. Click the print queue in the printer configuration window, and then select testcups test page from the menu to print a test page on the printer. Solutions guide for creating a aix print queue using smit. Look into npswarn, npskill stuff in performance management guide changing the boot device order. It also includes an optional method to configure the print queue that provides pcl. A print device is needed to connect the print driver to the physical port the printer is attached to. With aix, you can configure your tcpip network with a single command, mktcpip. It reports paper out, cleans up after a print job is cancelled, initializes the printer before printing.
I should have said earlier that i am an aix virgin. A printer is configured by using the smit makprt command. If your array contains more than one sgd server, you install a printer queue for. The program calls a list of defined printer queues to choose from for the output. Copy queues from one to another aix machie hi volks, is there any elegant methode to copy all print queues from one aix 5. On other systems, setting up tcpip might involve creating and editing multiple files, executing a number of commands, setting. There is an application running on the system that has a print button, which sends print files to the default printer. By using the piomkpq command, you can quickly create new print queues and add a printer to an existing queue. This topic contains links to pdfs of the aix documentation. Aix and linux interoperability april 2003 international technical support organization sg24662200. All other settings files are ignored if a runonce file exists. A print queue technically is a pair of stanzas or paragraphs in the file etcqconfig.
However if a do a pdf print, the printer acts weird. Each queue is made up of a queue stanza and a queue device stanza. The following procedure can be used to copy the printer configuration from one aix system to another aix system. Now i want to configureenable the logs for the printers zebra. Applies to smit in aix using the command smitty print. But the word size is too large, it is always over page a4 when i print. Now it was time to write a short script to convert the etcqconfig printer configuration file from aix and add the printers on the linux server. Copy printer configuration from one aix system to another. Listed and explained all 4,096 of them putty connection managertabbed putty. Printer config files thanks 0 kudos the opinions expressed above are the personal opinions of the authors, not of. On unix like operating systems, the lpr command submits print jobs.
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