Administering Printers

Managing the print system involves monitoring the lp system and uncovering reasons why it might not be working properly. Other routine tasks involve canceling print jobs and enabling or disabling a printer while it’s being serviced. This section provides instructions for the daily tasks you will perform to manage printers and the print scheduler. All of the following commands require superuser access.

Deleting Printers and Managing Printer Access

Use Admintool to delete a printer from the system. In the Print Manager window of Admintool, highlight the printer you want to delete and select Edit, Delete, as shown in Figure 24.11. The printer queue will be deleted from the system.

Figure 24.11. Deleting a printer. ...

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