09-18-2012
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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lpshut(1M) System Administration Commands lpshut(1M)
NAME
lpshut - stop the LP print service
SYNOPSIS
lpshut
DESCRIPTION
The lpshut command stops the LP print service.
Printers that are printing when lpshut is invoked stop printing. Start or restart printers using lpsched(1M).
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 |SUNWpsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
lp(1), lpstat(1), lpadmin(1M), lpmove(1M), lpsched(1M), attributes( 5)
System Administration Guide: Basic Administration
SunOS 5.10 8 Jan 1998 lpshut(1M)