Roaming Print Jobs

[Bill Brutzman]

When sending a print job to a busy printer, HP-UX reroutes the job to a free printer.

We need the print jobs to only go to the designated printer.

How can this be accomplished?

[Steven E. Protter]

Are we talking about the standard lp/admin package that comes with HP-UX?

SEP

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

I suspect that you have setup printer classes. In that case, you do something like this: lp -dmyclass myfile. (myclass could also be the default destination so that you are printing to it automatically). When printing to a class, the first available class member is used. You can override this behavior by printing to a specified printer.

[Bill Hassell]

As Clay mentioned, someone setup several printers in a class. The purpose is to keep a bunch of printers busy in a big room, something is virtually unheard of today. Yoou print to the class and the first available priter is given the job. However, the individual printers are also available. To see the printers that are in classes:

lpstat -c

Then print to your printer of choice.

[Bill Brutzman]

Printer classes were never setup here.

The command "lpstat -c " comes back with nothing.

Thus, I suspect the problem has to do with the spooler in our IBM UniVerse (Pick-style multi-value) database.

I will dive into that literature and consider contacting IBM tech support.

Thanks for the responses.

[Bill Brutzman]

In response to the above, YES, we are talking about the std lp/admin package that comes with HP-UX.