Setting Up Network‐Attached Printers by Using Solaris Print Manager
The following table describes each printer attribute to help you determine the information
that is needed to set up a network‐attached printer with Solaris Print Manager.
Printer
Definition |
Description |
Example |
Default Setting |
Required or Optional? |
|---|
Printer Name |
Name of printer |
laser1 |
N/A |
Required to install an attached or network
printer and to add access to a printer |
Print server |
Name of print server |
venus |
Use localhost for Printer Server attribute check box
selected by default |
Required to install an attached or network printer and to
add access to a printer — This field is filled in by the
tool |
Description |
User defined string |
laser printer near breakroom |
N/A |
Optional |
Printer Type |
Type of printer |
unknown |
PostScript |
Required to install an attached printer or a
network printer without PPD files |
File Content Type |
Content to be printed |
any |
PostScript |
Required to install an attached printer
or a network printer without PPD files |
Printer Make |
Make of printer |
Lexmark |
N/A |
Required to install an attached
printer or a network printer with PPD files |
Printer Model |
Model of printer |
Lexmark Optra E312 |
N/A |
Required to
install an attached printer or a network printer with PPD files |
Printer Driver |
Driver that is
used by specifying PPD file |
Foomatic/PostScript |
N/A |
Required to install an attached printer or a
network printer with PPD files |
Destination |
Destination name for the network printer |
For examples, see Selecting the Destination Name (Also Called the Network Printer Access Name) |
N/A |
Required
to install a network printer |
Protocol |
Protocol used to communicate with the printer |
TCP, URI |
BSD |
Required
to install a network printer |
Fault Notification |
Specifies how to notify user of errors |
Mail to superuser |
Write to superuser |
Optional |
Default
Printer |
Identifies the default printer |
N/A |
N/A |
Optional |
Banner Page Drop-Down Menu:
|
Print banner? Print banner? User selectable option,
turned on by default. To turn banner printing off, use lp command with
appropriate option. Never print banner? |
N/A |
Banner is printed Banner is printed unless turned off by
using lp command with appropriate option Banner is not printed |
Banner page printing turned on
by default unless another option is specified within the Solaris Print Manager pull-down
menu |
User Access List |
List of users allowed to print on the print server |
rimmer,lister |
All users can
print |
Optional |
How to Add a New Network‐Attached Printer by Using Solaris Print Manager
The Use PPD files default attribute in Solaris Print Manage enables you to
select the printer make, model, and driver when adding new printer. For more
information on this feature, see Administering Printers That Use PPD Files.
This procedure shows you how to add a new network printer by
using Solaris Print Manager with the Use PPD files default attribute is selected.
To add a new network printer without PPD files, deselect this attribute by
removing the checkmark from the check box.
- Select the system to be the print server.
- Connect the printer to the network. Turn on the power to the printer.
Consult the printer vendor's installation documentation for information about the hardware switches and
cabling requirements.
- Start Solaris Print Manager on the print server.
For instructions, see How to Start Solaris Print Manager.
In this Solaris release you can specify localhost as the host name in
the print system's databases. This modification was added to enable print servers to
maintain the same print host name, localhost, independent of the machine host name.
This option is the default in Solaris Print Manager. To revert to earlier
behavior for this option, deselect the check box. Note that this option applies
exclusively to the setup of local print queues. For more information, see Solaris Print Manager Options and Selectable Attributes.
To set up a local print queue specifying localhost as the host name
by using the lpadmin command with the -s option, see How to Use LP Print Commands to Add a Print Queue With localhost Specified as the Host Name.
- Select New Network Printer from the Printer menu.
The New Network Printer window is displayed.
- Fill in the required fields with the appropriate information.
If you need information to complete a field, click the Help button.
For example, to add a new network printer with PPD files, provide
the appropriate information in the following fields:
Printer Name:
Description:
Printer Make:
Printer Model:
Printer Driver:
Fault Notification:
Destination:
Protocol:
Options:
Default Printer
Always Use Banner
User Access List:
The Printer Server field is filled in by Solaris Print Manager.
To add a new network printer without PPD files, provide the appropriate information
in the following fields:
Printer Name:
Description:
Printer Type:
File Contents:
Fault Notification:
destination:
Protocol:
Options:
Default Printer
Always Use Banner
User Access List:
The Printer Server field is filled in by Solaris Print Manager.
- Click OK.
- Verify that the printer has been installed. Check for the new printer entry
in the Solaris Print Manager main window.
- Verify that the printer can print requests.
$ lp -d printer-name filename
- Exit Solaris Print Manager.
Choose Exit from the Print Manager Menu.
