Solaris Printing and You!

I hardly ever have a request to add a printer to a Solaris box, but every one and a while a developer needs me to add one. Not that I have any idea what they are printing…

Below are my notes…

Adding a Printer:

In the example below we are adding a printer with the -p option for the printer name, the -s for the print server, and -D for the description.

# lpadmin -p luna -s saturn 
# lpadmin -p luna -D "Room 1954 ps"
# lpadmin -d luna
# lpstat -p luna



Verify you can print with the following command
$ lp -d printer-name filename


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