Faint bells are ringing with this 'recovery_type' thing... unfortunately I'm still at a loss! You'll have to forgive me as I'm relatively new to all this. I've had a look around in the qconfig file and also poked around SMIT setting up printers but haven't come across this option yet, though I have heard of it before somewhere....

The printers are all created in the same way as they are all the same make\model and are created using a scripted interface (to allow the helpdesk to create them), so they all turn out the same. Here's an example qconfig entry for a printer;

0020pa01:
device = @0020pa01
up = TRUE
host = 0020pa01
s_statfilter = /usr/lib/lpd/bsdshort
l_statfilter = /usr/lib/lpd/bsdlong
rq = lp
@0020pa01:
backend = /usr/lib/lpd/rembak -T7200

Thanks for your help so far!

Regards,

Alex