Chapter 24. LP Print Service

Printers are a standard peripheral for any computer system. One of the first devices added to any new system is a printer. The multiuser nature of the Solaris operating environment means that the Solaris printer software is more complex than that of a single-user operating system. This means that adding a printer to a Solaris system requires more than just plugging it in.

This chapter describes how to set up local printers, set up access to remote printers, and perform some printer administration tasks by using the Print Manager GUI, the command line, or Admintool. Most of the system administrator’s needs for ...

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