09-15-2014
That depends. It depends on which UNIX system you are on, what exactly you want to do, which printers you want to manage - and some other variables you haven't told us about.
Tell us more about your requirements and we will be able to telly you more about what you need.
I hope this helps.
bakunin
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LEARN ABOUT OPENSOLARIS
ospm-pm
ospm-pm(1) User Commands ospm-pm(1)
NAME
ospm-pm - OpenSolaris Print Manager
SYNOPSIS
ospm-pm [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
The OpenSolaris Print Manager application enables you to control and manage print queues and print jobs. Currently, it supports on Solaris
LP print system. You can use OpenSolaris Print Manager to perform the following tasks:
o Create printer groups from a static list or based on some attributes of the printers
o View print jobs on each printer, and remove print jobs that are queued
o Add new printer queues manually
o Integrate Print queues which were Auto-detected or auto-discovered into its GUI
The tool can be invoked from the command line, but it is typically invoked from the desktop menu.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more infor-
mation.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Launching OpenSolaris Print Manager.
example% ospm-pm
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/ospm-pm
The executable file for OpenSolaris Print Manager application.
$HOME/.ospm-printer-groups.xml
Configuration file for printer groups.
$HOME/.printers
It supports printer(4) when user saves queues into the Favourites printer group.
ATTRIBUTES
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWprint-monitor |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Volatile |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
gconf-editor(1), gconftool-2(1), ospm-preferences(1), libgconf-2(3), printer(4), gnome-std-options(5)
NOTES
Written by Evan Yan, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2008.
SunOS 5.11 07 Aug 2008 ospm-pm(1)