Introduction to printer aliases

Use Printer Aliases when you are creating a queue in Linux to provide alternative names for a print queue. For example, the real name of a print queue could be “Bldg_4_Room1,” but the alias describes it as “duplex." Users can then use “Bldg_4_Room1” or “duplex” as the print queue name when printing.

Note:Printer aliases are supported only on Linux platforms with the LPRng print subsystem enabled. If you want to modify the aliases of a queue, you need to recreate the print queue.