Aix risc system/6000 – Minolta PI4700E User Manual
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The AIX printing subsystem is driven by the qdaemon program, which
uses data in the
/usr/lpd/qconfig
file to manage queues and route jobs to
the proper devices. This information includes entries for each physical vir-
tual printer and physical device known to the system.
Simply stated, an AIX virtual printer is a high-level software view of a data
stream, queue, and device that controls how a given job is to be processed.
A different virtual printer should be defined for each data stream that is sup-
ported by a real printer. Even when PostScript and PCL jobs are destined
for the same printer, for example, each job uses a different virtual printer.
Configuring a Network Card printer on an AIX system approximates con-
figuration of a local printer as nearly as possible. The one point where it
differs is that the physical device only difference is that the physical device
associated with the Network Card printer must be a named pipe used by
the print daemon to route data to the Network Card.
The following shows the most straightforward way to add a printer to the
system.
1
Type the following to run the installation script:
nicinst
2
What is the node name of the Print Server Unit?
Input the host name recorded in
/etc/hosts
. For example, type
print-
fast
and then press
.
3
What is the printer name?
Type the printer name and press
.
4
Here, the script displays the information you have input up to this point.
The following shows example information.
Node name of the Print Server Card: printfast
Printer name to be used: <printer name>
The printer is attached on: PORT 1
Check these settings and make sure they are correct. If they are cor-
rect, type
yes
and press
. Otherwise, type
no
and press
.
5
Configure a virtual printer using <printer name> as the physical de-
vice. For <printer name>, use the same printer name that you speci-
fied when installing the printer.
6
Use the following command to shut down qdaemon.
stopsrc -s qdaemon
Enter
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