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Old 07-21-2005
Error How to set up dummy printer on UNIX
Hi,

I work at IT department of a home furnishing company in Canada. Presently we are working on printer issue on UNIX system and we like to set up a dummy printer on the system. We are not much sure about the procedure to try it and it woul dbe great if we get some advice to go ahead.

Thanks a lot.
Srabanti
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Old 07-25-2005
I have something like that at office, using APSFILTER (on FreeBSD) we share a line printer using samba for our Windows workstations and lpd for some unix like hosts. The problem I found was not sharing the printer... the real problem was finding the correct driver for the printer, it depends on your printer model. Take a look at the printcap manual page printcap(5) on your UNIX system.
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Old 07-25-2005
You might want to post your OS and version and exactly what you are looking for as far as a dummy printer - do you want it to 'print' to a file, not to print at all (but go through the steps)...

See the man page for lp, lpstat, enable, lpq, lprm, printers.conf as a start.
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Old 08-08-2005
Dummy Printer setup
Hi
Thank you for the tips and I have been busy a while to check it out. Anyway, the OS we are using is AIX 4.3 and I don't need to print at all. So I am only looking for a printer to go through the print steps without printing anything and that way optimize the print copies.

Thanks a lot.
Srabanti
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