56 connecting the printer to a network – Panasonic KX-P8420 User Manual

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Connecting the Printer to a Network

5

If your UNIX system uses SunOS 4 or another BSD-
based variant, go to the next section.

If your system uses Solaris 2, follow the steps on

page 57

.

To set up printing on a UNIX system running SunOS 4 or another
BSD based variant:

1

On each workstation that will print to the printer, log in to
your UNIX host as the root user.

2

Create an entry for the printer in your /etc/printcap file.

The following is a sample printcap entry for the printer. Note that the
remote host name you enter in the

rm

line must exactly match the

name you entered in the

/etc/hosts

file.

KX-P8420q:\
:lp=:\
:rm=KX-P8420:\
:rp=xjprint:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/KX-P8420q/log:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/KX-P8420q:\
:mx#0:sf:sb

The spool directory

KX-P8420q

is specified here, and the directory

itself is created in

step 3

. Similarly, the log file is specified here and

created in

step 4

. The spool directory is write-protected (from

everyone but a daemon user and daemon group); users cannot
modify or remove files other than their own.

It is possible to set up to two additional printer entries, one with the

rp

name

xjprint

and one with the name

xjhold

. The

rp

name

indicates the KX-P8420 queue to which jobs are sent when you
print to the named printer.

A printer entry with the

rp

name

xjhold

routes all jobs to the

KX-P8420 Hold queue. Therefore, to print those jobs, they must be
moved to the Print queue or deleted using Fiery WebSpooler.

NOTE:

Printers without a hard disk drive and 32 MB of memory can not
use Print or Hold queues (

rp

name:

xjprint

and

xjhold

), they can

only receive print jobs over the Direct connection. Use the

rp

name

xjdirect

if your KX-P8420 has no hard disk, or is configured

with less than 32 MB of memory.

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