WYNTK: UNIX System Admininistrator

You can control what printer a file goes to, cancel print jobs, or monitor the print queue.

Once a file has been converted to PostScript, you can’t control the resulting output, but you can control what printer it goes to and how many copies are printed. You can also cancel print jobs, and monitor a job’s progress on a printer queue.

There are, of course, some parts of the print process that aren’t under your control as a user. An application, print command, printer daemon, or even the physical printer itself might not work as it is supposed to, over the entire computer system. If the problem is a systemwide one (other than running out of paper or toner), you’ll probably need help to solve it.

However, when you have trouble printing , it’s often something that you can solve on your own.

New users don’t always know what printer they’re using

	One problem that some users have is that they don’t know what printer they use. People get a generic system login account with a generic default printer. A new user will send a job to the printer and then wait for it to show up at the printer nearest them. They’ll just keep printing and printing and watching the printer, not knowing that there are dozens of printers and their job is going to a printer somewhere in another building.
	--Mary Jane Caswell-Stephenson