Sales accepting requests since Wed Apr 15 21:01:36 1998 The following two lpstat commands will provide the information you need: You should also look at the printer with the lpstat command to make sure that it is configured properly. Next, test the configuration by printing a sample file to the printer with the lp command: At this point the printer queue has been fully configured. Change the ownership and permissions as follows:ġ1. Next, you should exit the sysadmsh utility, and change the ownership and permissions of the device file you will be printing to. From the main menu of the utility, select Printers Þ Configure Þ Default. You can do this through the sysadmsh utility. You may also want to make this printer the default printer, especially if it's the only printer on the system.

Again enter the name of the printer and hit. To enable the printer, return to the main menu of the sysadmsh, then select

To tell the printer to accept new print requests, return to the main menu of the sysadmsh, then select Printers Þ Schedule Þ Accept. On an SCO Unix 3.2.4.2 system, after you've configured the printer you must configure the queue to accept requests, and it must also be enabled. Sample data for a printer named 'Sales' might look like this:Ĭomment: Laser printer in Sales departmentħ. Fill in the form by supplying the necessary printer properties. If this test works, you are ready to configure the printer.Ħ. You can also use the following command to see if a parallel communications device is already configured on your system: If you receive an error indicating that the device (i.e., /dev/lp0) does not exist, it will be necessary to run (Note that on some systems the printed page will not be ejected, and it may be necessary to eject the page manually.) If the system is working properly, the date information will be printed by the printer. (where n is the number of the parallel port you are using for example, the first parallel port on a system is referred to as /dev/lp0) Enter the following command to send some test data to the printer:

Test print laser printer