IBM eServer Certification Study Guide - pSeries AIX System Administration

Chapter 14. Printing

This chapter discusses the AIX print subsystem and does not cover the optional SRV4 print subsystem, which is available in AIX 5L Version 5.1.

The following defines terms commonly used when discussing UNIX printing.

• Print job

  A print job is a unit of work to be run on a printer. A print job can consist of printing one or more files depending on how the print job is requested. The system assigns a unique job number to each job it runs.

• Queue

  The queue is where you direct a print job. It is a stanza in the /etc/qconfig file whose name is the name of the queue and points to the associated queue device.

• Queue device

  The queue device is the stanza in the /etc/qconfig file that normally follows the local queue stanza. It specifies ...