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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers print to file Post 302702471 by kolsen on Tuesday 18th of September 2012 10:56:38 AM
Old 09-18-2012
Question print to file
Hello.

The company I work for would like to stop using these big ol' Genicom 4440 printers and create PDFs instead. The cost for maintenance and paper has gotten too high. Ideally whenever someone prints in Unix it will produce a (plain text) file in a folder on a windows server. I believe this is called a print image file.

We have other software that will process it and output the PDF.

I am not an experience user. I'm not afraid to try and do things myself, which I have, but when you get down to it I just don't know what I'm doing . I've logged in as root, gone into sco admin, and messed around trying to set up a printer, but it never works.

Any time I search the web, I can find step by step instructions on setting up a printer in windows to be remote printer for Unix, but only a vague description on how to set things up on the Unix side.

Can this be done, and if so what are my first steps in getting this accomplished?

Any thoughts or advice is much appreciated. Thank you.

Oh and we are running SCO OpenServer release 5 if that helps.

I originally posted this under the SCO section but I think it belongs here under Unix for dummies.
 

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LEARN ABOUT OPENDARWIN

enable

enable(1)							   User Commands							 enable(1)

NAME

       enable, disable - enable/disable LP printers

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/bin/enable printer...

       /usr/bin/disable [-c | -W]  [ -r [reason]] printer...

DESCRIPTION

       The  enable  command  activates	printers,  enabling  them to print requests submitted by the lp command. enable must be run on the printer
       server.

       The disable command deactivates printers, disabling them from printing requests submitted by the lp command. By default, any requests  that
       are  currently  printing  on printer will be reprinted in their entirety either on printer or another member of the same class of printers.
       The disable command must be run on the print server.

       Use lpstat -p to check the status of printers.

       enable and disable only effect queueing on the print server's spooling system. Executing these commands from a client system will  have	no
       effect on the server.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported for use with disable:

       -c	       Cancels	any requests that are currently printing on printer. This option cannot be used with the -W option. If the printer
		       is remote, the -c option will be silently ignored.

       -W	       Waits until the request currently being printed is finished before disabling printer. This option cannot be used  with  the
		       -c option. If the printer is remote, the -W option will be silently ignored.

       -r [reason]     Assigns	a  reason  for	the  disabling	of  the  printer(s). This reason applies to all printers specified. This reason is
		       reported by lpstat -p. Enclose reason in quotes if it contains blanks. The default  reason  is  "unknown  reason"  for  the
		       existing printer, and "new printer" for a printer added to the system but not yet enabled.

OPERANDS

       The following operand is supported for both enable and disable:

       printer	       The  name of the printer to be enabled or disabled. Specify printer using atomic name. See printers.conf(4) for information
		       regarding the naming conventions for atomic names.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	       Successful completion.

       non-zero        An error occurred.

FILES

       /var/spool/lp/*	       LP print queue.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWpcu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |CSI			     |enabled			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       lp(1), lpstat(1), printers.conf(4), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    9 Sep 1996								 enable(1)
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