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Managing Print Services

• Introduction
• Objectives
• Print Service Overview
  • Print System Terminology
  • Print System Configurations
  • The Print Spooler System
  • Print Service Administration
• Adding a Parallel Printer to a Unix System
  • SCO Unix 3.2.4.2
  • Sending test data to a printer
  • SCO OpenServer 5.x
• Lab Exercise
• Adding a Serial Printer to a Unix System
  • SCO Unix 3.2.4.2
  • Installing a serial printer on SCO OpenServer 5.x
  • Lab Exercise:
• Adding a Network Printer to an SCO Unix System
  • Adding a network printer to an SCO Unix 3.2.4.2 system
  • Configuring an SCO OpenServer 5 system as a TCP/IP Print Server
  • Configuring an SCO OpenServer 5 system to print to another OpenServer 5 system over a TCP/IP network
  • Lab Exercise
• Print Service system files and directories
  • Contents of /usr/spool/lp on an OpenServer 5.x system, with a printer named "Sales" defined:
  • Location of the printer interface script
  • Location of configuration files for the "Sales" printer
  • Temporary files created during the printing process:
    • /usr/spool/lp/requests Directory
    • /usr/spool/lp/temp Directory
    • Merged request log - /usr/spool/lp/logs/requests
  • Exercise
• Managing a printer queue
  • Print service commands for end-users
  • Commands used to manage the printer system
  • Commands and files for Network printers (SCO OpenServer 5.x)
• Printing
  • Pipeline uses of the "lp" command
• Checking the Status of Print Requests
  • "lpstat" examples
    • Interpreting The Output of "lpstat"
    • Viewing "lpstat" output when there are other users printing
    • lpstat Examples
• Cancelling Print Requests
• Shutting down the scheduler
• Starting the line printer daemon
• lpsched Examples
• Administering the print service
  • lpadmin Examples
• Enabling a print spooler
  • enable Examples
• Disabling a print spooler
• Rejecting print requests
• Accepting print requests
  • accept Examples
• Moving print requests from one queue to another
  • lpmove Examples
• Putting a request on hold
  • lp Examples
• Troubleshooting Printing Problems
• Troubleshooting - tricks of the trade for support centers
• Print Services - Final Exam