Default settings for the program or queue
The command line program lsqueue_opts provides a list of options available for this queue. For help, see Print from the command line.
You can create and remove both virtual devices and queues from the command line. For help, see Create virtual device and Create a printer queue.
The command-line submission GUI is accessed by typing ibmlp instead of the lp command when you print from the command line. If you use ibmlp, the Printer Queue Properties dialog box appears. From this dialog box you can customize the print properties for this particular print job before the job prints. For help, see Print from the command line.
Note: You can also use ibmlp in applications such as Mozilla. Just replace the existing lp command with the ibmlp command.
Three different icons may appear on the printer queues:
Note: An enabled queue might reject print jobs, just as a disabled queue might accept them.
The printer queue was probably removed by an administrator. Try printing to a different queue, or contact your administrator.
You probably only have normal user permissions. Only administrators have the ability to add or remove queues.
You need to become an administrator. Only a system administrator can make a normal user a IBM Print Driver administrator.
No, but you must open IBM Print Drivers as an administrator.
IBM Print Drivers has two levels of access: user mode and admin mode. The unavailable and missing icons represent administrative options that regular users cannot access. This protects the print subsystem, while still providing users their own printer queue settings. If you need admin permission, see your administrator.
When you access IBM Print Drivers as a normal user and you change the settings of a particular queue, you are creating new settings for that queue. Those settings are stored in your home directory as your user settings. If a user logs in as an administrator and makes changes to a particular queue, the settings are changed for everyone. The only settings that are not affected are those user settings that were created before the administrator changed the system's settings. IBM Print Drivers always checks to see if you have user settings in place before following the system settings.
Contact your system administrator to become a IBM Print Drivers administrator.
The system administrator adds the user to the administrative group. For more information, see Add or remove a user from the administrative group.
Yes, you can change the settings for a particular printer queue and those settings will be saved to your home account. You can also change the settings for a particular print job.
You have created user settings for that printer queue, but if your colleague has not, the system settings are still in effect. Your colleague must open IBM Print Drivers and change his or her user settings.
No.
You need free space in /var/tmp equal to about one and a half (1.5) times the size of the driver package file. You also need the same amount of free space in the partition where you direct your system's install tool to place the installed files (/opt/ibm by default on most systems). For help, see UNIX system requirements.
When you add a network device, the following options can be set: Administrator User ID, Logfile Name, Printer Intervention Information for User, and Printer Intervention Information for Administrator.
The Administrator User ID is the ID of the system administrator who receives printer intervention information.
The Logfile Name is the field where you can specify the location and name of the logfile.
The Printer Intervention Information for User and Administrator are the fields where you select how the driver communicates important information to the current user (whoever is sending the job when the error state is reached) and Administrator (the person listed in the Administrator User ID field).
Printer Classes are only available when you are creating a queue on Solaris SPARC, HP-UX, or IBM AIX. Enabling classes for a printer and then adding it to a class means that if another printer in that class has a print job in process when another job comes in, the new job can get printed on another printer in that class. For more information, see Work with printer classes.
Printer groups are ways of organizing printer queues to make them manageable for a user. There are two default printer groups in IBM Print Drivers: All Printers and My Printers. My Printers is a subset of All Printers that the user selects to organize the volume of printers that are available on a system connected to a large network.
All Printers is a list of all printer queues available on the system. My Printers is a subset of All Printers, and is determined by the user.
The page is only available for network connected printers. It would not be available for printers connected by parallel, serial, or USB cables.