topic printers in Operating System - HP-UX

printers

khilari — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:10:39 GMT

Hi people, well i wanted to know as to how do u view which printers are attached to a unix box. And to view all its configuration and stuff.
Thanks.

Re: printers

Pete Randall — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:17:08 GMT

From the command line you can use "lpstat" or you can use SAM > Printers and Plotter > LP Spooler > Printers and Plotters.

Pete

Re: printers

A. Clay Stephenson — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:23:11 GMT

lpstat -t

Re: printers

Geoff Wild — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:26:22 GMT

And here's a llittle script I wrote to check individual printers:

# cat /opt/hpnpl/bin/lpst
#!/bin/sh
#
# check printer status
# Geoff Wild

if [ $# -lt 1 -o $ $# -gt 1 -a $# -lt 4 $ ]
then
echo "Usage:"
echo "lpst \"printer\""
echo "Example:"
echo "lpst W052"
exit 1
fi
echo " "
/usr/sbin/ping $1 -n 2
echo " "
lpstat -p$1 -v$1
echo " "
echo "Output Requests"
echo "-----------------------------------------------------------"
lpstat -o$1
echo " "
lpstat -r
echo " "

Rgds...Geoff