Submitting Jobs To An Hpdps Printer; Printing To A Default Logical Printer; Printing To A Specific Logical Printer - HP 9000 User Manual

Basic Printing Tasks

Submitting Jobs to an HPDPS Printer

Submitting Jobs to an HPDPS Printer
When you or your print administrator have configured one or more
HPDPS logical printers, you can submit jobs to them:
• Using "drag and drop" printing from CDE or HP VUE
• By entering commands at the command line, such as pdpr
• From an application

Printing to a Default Logical Printer

To submit a job, you can use the pdpr command. If a default logical
printer has been set in your PDPRINTER environment variable and you
want to use it, enter the pdpr command without specifying a logical
printer.
For example, to submit the file File1 to your default logical printer,
enter:
pdpr File1
Printing to a Specific Logical Printer
To send a job to a specific logical printer use -p PrinterName with the
pdpr command. Requesting a specific logical printer can be useful if your
distributed print environment has many available logical printers or has
defined logical printers based on the types of print jobs that the logical
printers accept. Examples of logical printers defined by types of jobs
could include those that only accept large jobs, those that are specifically
for PostScript jobs, or those that only support single-sided jobs. To
submit the file, File1, to the logical printer LogPrt2, enter:
pdpr -p LogPrt2 File1
Contact your administrator for the names of the logical printers specific
to your installation, or use the pdls command to list the names of your
configured logical printers.
If you submit a job to a logical printer that has no associated physical
printers capable of handling your job, HPDPS rejects the job and you
receive an error message.
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