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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers How to print from UNIX? Post 302917211 by bakunin on Monday 15th of September 2014 04:04:54 AM
Old 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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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)
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