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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers TCP(?) Printing from Unix Post 302212878 by jhtrice on Tuesday 8th of July 2008 04:02:47 PM
Old 07-08-2008
You need to tell us which version of Unix you are running. Setting up printers varies greatly.
In most cases the lpstat command will show you information on the printer setups. Look at man lpstat for options. Try "lpstat -t".
 

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tsm.lpadmin

tsm.lpadmin(1M) 														   tsm.lpadmin(1M)

NAME

       tsm.lpadmin - add or remove a printer for use with tsm(1)

SYNOPSIS

       printer model

       printer

DESCRIPTION

       is  used  to add (or remove) a printer to the LP spooling system when the printer is connected to the system through a terminal running the
       Terminal Session Manager (see tsm(1)).  is a shell script that uses in the normal way but also creates a named pipe to which LP	output	is
       directed (see lpadmin(1)).  This named pipe is opened by TSM and data flowing from it is sent to the printer through the terminal.

   Options
       recognizes the following options:

	      Names a printer to be created with an associated pipe.
			     If is used, must also be specified.

	      Selects a model interface program for
			     printer.	model is one of the model interface names supplied with the LP software (see the Models topic in the lpad-
			     min(1)) manual entry.  If is used, must also be specified.

	      Removes	     printer from the LP system.  No other options are allowed with

   Restrictions
       To use you must be user or

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP.

FILES

SEE ALSO

       lpadmin(1M), tsm(1).

																   tsm.lpadmin(1M)
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