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Contents Learning about the printer drivers 7 Using the printer drivers with UNIX and Linux...7 Installing the printer drivers 8 Before installing the printer drivers...8 Supported operating systems...8 System requirements...9 Installing on HP-UX...9 Installing on IBM AIX...10 Installing on Red Hat, Red Flag, Linpus, or SUSE Linux 11 Installing ...
Contents Learning about the printer drivers 7 Using the printer drivers with UNIX and Linux...7 Installing the printer drivers 8 Before installing the printer drivers...8 Supported operating systems...8 System requirements...9 Installing on HP-UX...9 Installing on IBM AIX...10 Installing on Red Hat, Red Flag, Linpus, or SUSE Linux 11 Installing ...
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... such as duplex or no banner page, so users do not need to specify those options. • Printer options support-Users have the ability to access several printer-specific options such as multiple-page printing, print and hold, duplex, or paper size. • Job submission...native Print subsystem and send data directly to the printer by using the transport utilities. • Printer groups (My Printers)-Users have the ability to group print queues. • Printer classes-System administrators have the ability to manage the standard printer classes from a graphical interface. • Enhanced ...
... such as duplex or no banner page, so users do not need to specify those options. • Printer options support-Users have the ability to access several printer-specific options such as multiple-page printing, print and hold, duplex, or paper size. • Job submission...native Print subsystem and send data directly to the printer by using the transport utilities. • Printer groups (My Printers)-Users have the ability to group print queues. • Printer classes-System administrators have the ability to manage the standard printer classes from a graphical interface. • Enhanced ...
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...Linux - SUSE Linux - Linspire Linux - Debian GNU/Linux - Linpus Linux For specific supported operating system versions, see the Web site for printer drivers. Installing the printer drivers Before installing the printer drivers 1 Make sure you are logged on with root user authority. 2 Make sure ... print servers on Solaris, install the printer drivers on your operating system, or see the file /usr/lexprint/docs/supported-platforms.txt after installation. 8 If you have enough disk space available for a complete installation. Supported operating systems Make sure you have an...
...Linux - SUSE Linux - Linspire Linux - Debian GNU/Linux - Linpus Linux For specific supported operating system versions, see the Web site for printer drivers. Installing the printer drivers Before installing the printer drivers 1 Make sure you are logged on with root user authority. 2 Make sure ... print servers on Solaris, install the printer drivers on your operating system, or see the file /usr/lexprint/docs/supported-platforms.txt after installation. 8 If you have enough disk space available for a complete installation. Supported operating systems Make sure you have an...
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...the web browser you can type lexprint -n. Performing tasks Opening the printer driver The printer driver is available from a Windows menu item, or from the command line by default. Note: The Print Drivers Setup is not supported when running the application as a "root" user. For more ...all print jobs. Print Drivers Setup There are six basic options you are using the command line. • /usr/local/lexmark/setup.lexprint • /opt/lexmark/setup.lexprint • /usr/lpp/lexprint/setup.lexprint Note: For more information about administrative groups, see "Changing an administrative ...
...the web browser you can type lexprint -n. Performing tasks Opening the printer driver The printer driver is available from a Windows menu item, or from the command line by default. Note: The Print Drivers Setup is not supported when running the application as a "root" user. For more ...all print jobs. Print Drivers Setup There are six basic options you are using the command line. • /usr/local/lexmark/setup.lexprint • /opt/lexmark/setup.lexprint • /usr/lpp/lexprint/setup.lexprint Note: For more information about administrative groups, see "Changing an administrative ...
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Asian Drivers You can enable Asian driver support which allows you do not. For more information about creating print queues, see "...to use . 4 Click Next. In order to print using the Asian Font DIMM. Changing an administrative group name The printer driver uses UNIX groups to separate those who have permission to add and remove queues from , the menu bar. 1 Click... the Print Drivers Setup, and then create a print queue for jobs to print correctly, you must specify a printer with CUPS you must remove this option allows the flexibility to , or remove them from those who do not make...
Asian Drivers You can enable Asian driver support which allows you do not. For more information about creating print queues, see "...to use . 4 Click Next. In order to print using the Asian Font DIMM. Changing an administrative group name The printer driver uses UNIX groups to separate those who have permission to add and remove queues from , the menu bar. 1 Click... the Print Drivers Setup, and then create a print queue for jobs to print correctly, you must specify a printer with CUPS you must remove this option allows the flexibility to , or remove them from those who do not make...
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Creating print queues from supported_printers and it looks like this: Lexmark T632 10LT63x automatic The printer type is 10LT63x, and the supported language is automatic. 19 a The device name associated with the LPRng print subsystem, select Enable Printer Aliases to create aliases for this printer from the command line 1 Before you can create the queue, you...
Creating print queues from supported_printers and it looks like this: Lexmark T632 10LT63x automatic The printer type is 10LT63x, and the supported language is automatic. 19 a The device name associated with the LPRng print subsystem, select Enable Printer Aliases to create aliases for this printer from the command line 1 Before you can create the queue, you...
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... options and values you can send only PostScript emulation jobs through queue. For example, an enabled queue may reject jobs. 20 Supported language notes • All printer types support "raw" as "automatic" for this command. If you select automatic, you set the language type to the print queue. ...• The Automatic PDF language type lets you can be automatic, pcl, or ps. The printer type is 10LT63x and the language ...
... options and values you can send only PostScript emulation jobs through queue. For example, an enabled queue may reject jobs. 20 Supported language notes • All printer types support "raw" as "automatic" for this command. If you select automatic, you set the language type to the print queue. ...• The Automatic PDF language type lets you can be automatic, pcl, or ps. The printer type is 10LT63x and the language ...
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.... Changing the print queue properties 1 Open the printer driver. 2 Right-click the print queue icon. 3 Select the appropriate Properties menu item. 4 Change the settings. 5 Click OK. If you select an option the printer does not support, the printer ignores the unsupported settings. How you change the... properties determines which print jobs are affected. • If you open the printer driver as a normal user, your changes are saved in your home...
.... Changing the print queue properties 1 Open the printer driver. 2 Right-click the print queue icon. 3 Select the appropriate Properties menu item. 4 Change the settings. 5 Click OK. If you select an option the printer does not support, the printer ignores the unsupported settings. How you change the... properties determines which print jobs are affected. • If you open the printer driver as a normal user, your changes are saved in your home...
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Working with printer classes Introduction to printer classes Printer classes help you need to recreate the print queue. Because printing resources are supported only on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, or Linux with CUPS enabled. To add a queue to a new or existing class, ...New Class • Select Existing Class • Remove Existing Class You cannot remove a queue from a class at the time you can also change or modify a printer queue class from a class, type the following command: # /usr/lexprint/bin/chqueue -q myqueue -c -a class1,class2 To remove a queue from the command line....
Working with printer classes Introduction to printer classes Printer classes help you need to recreate the print queue. Because printing resources are supported only on Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, or Linux with CUPS enabled. To add a queue to a new or existing class, ...New Class • Select Existing Class • Remove Existing Class You cannot remove a queue from a class at the time you can also change or modify a printer queue class from a class, type the following command: # /usr/lexprint/bin/chqueue -q myqueue -c -a class1,class2 To remove a queue from the command line....
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Note: Unless your printer supports Direct Image or an ImageQuick card SIMM, only PostScript emulation, PCL emulation, and ASCII text files can specify the change at the command line. 1 Determine if the print queue supports the feature you want to change properties: # lpr -P queue_name -C "lexopts:... type the appropriate command. # /usr/lexprint/bin/lsqueue_opts -q lab_printer The screen then reads: duplex none (default) short_edge long_edge printer setting 2 Find the property name and value that is working correctly. The test page includes information such as the queue name, ...
Note: Unless your printer supports Direct Image or an ImageQuick card SIMM, only PostScript emulation, PCL emulation, and ASCII text files can specify the change at the command line. 1 Determine if the print queue supports the feature you want to change properties: # lpr -P queue_name -C "lexopts:... type the appropriate command. # /usr/lexprint/bin/lsqueue_opts -q lab_printer The screen then reads: duplex none (default) short_edge long_edge printer setting 2 Find the property name and value that is working correctly. The test page includes information such as the queue name, ...
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...followed by another copy of the paper. If you want to print on the Setup tab is supported. Collating copies By default, multiple copies of the document. 26 Note: If the printer does not have an optional duplex unit installed in sequence (one copy of the first page, followed...edge, the pages turn like the pages of a magazine. It then prints collated pages of the remainder of a document are separated by all printers support the multiple-page feature. Printing a duplex job Duplex printing is printing on the Setup tab usually prints uncollated copies faster. Note: Not all ...
...followed by another copy of the paper. If you want to print on the Setup tab is supported. Collating copies By default, multiple copies of the document. 26 Note: If the printer does not have an optional duplex unit installed in sequence (one copy of the first page, followed...edge, the pages turn like the pages of a magazine. It then prints collated pages of the remainder of a document are separated by all printers support the multiple-page feature. Printing a duplex job Duplex printing is printing on the Setup tab usually prints uncollated copies faster. Note: Not all ...
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...is wide. • Select Landscape if you want carriage returns when a line feed is only supported by the PCL emulation printer language. Note: These settings are only supported by the PCL emulation printer language. • The lines per page and lines per inch numbers work together. • ...You can specify the orientation you want to let the printer determine the orientation. This is tall. • Select Reverse Landscape...
...is wide. • Select Landscape if you want carriage returns when a line feed is only supported by the PCL emulation printer language. Note: These settings are only supported by the PCL emulation printer language. • The lines per page and lines per inch numbers work together. • ...You can specify the orientation you want to let the printer determine the orientation. This is tall. • Select Reverse Landscape...
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...-d queue_name -o print_hold=confidential -o pin_no=pin file_name To use the confidential Print and Hold function from the printer memory. • Select Repeat to print one copy and hold your print jobs. • Select Confidential...4 Click OK. it appears in the Job Information to determine if the printer supports this feature. 28 You can print additional copies as long as the job... to print the originally requested copies of print and hold a job in the printer memory. For example, you print all printers support the Print and Hold feature. After you may be four digits. For more ...
...-d queue_name -o print_hold=confidential -o pin_no=pin file_name To use the confidential Print and Hold function from the printer memory. • Select Repeat to print one copy and hold your print jobs. • Select Confidential...4 Click OK. it appears in the Job Information to determine if the printer supports this feature. 28 You can print additional copies as long as the job... to print the originally requested copies of print and hold a job in the printer memory. For example, you print all printers support the Print and Hold feature. After you may be four digits. For more ...
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... currently installed plug-ins. Note: Your specific printer driver may be included in use. Check the Software and Documentation CD or the Lexmark Web site to take effect. If there are any plug-ins available for added device support. After installation, you try to take effect.... to remove a queue that is scriptable. A confirmation dialog appears. Removing plugins from the printer driver or the command line. The Plugin Manager utility can download the latest device support from the command line. 31 3 Click Remove. It contains more specific information about the plugin...
... currently installed plug-ins. Note: Your specific printer driver may be included in use. Check the Software and Documentation CD or the Lexmark Web site to take effect. If there are any plug-ins available for added device support. After installation, you try to take effect.... to remove a queue that is scriptable. A confirmation dialog appears. Removing plugins from the printer driver or the command line. The Plugin Manager utility can download the latest device support from the command line. 31 3 Click Remove. It contains more specific information about the plugin...
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... all print jobs from the print server. If you use an Automatic PDF queue with a printer that does not support ImageQuick data, the job will not print correctly. • Automatic PDF queues support PCL emulation, PDF, and PostScript emulation data. The hostname does not resolve • If ...a DNS hostname does not resolve, your name server (DNS server). Re-enable the queue with a printer that does not support PDF data, the job does not print correctly. • PostScript emulation queues can print PostScript emulation data. • PCL emulation queues ...
... all print jobs from the print server. If you use an Automatic PDF queue with a printer that does not support ImageQuick data, the job will not print correctly. • Automatic PDF queues support PCL emulation, PDF, and PostScript emulation data. The hostname does not resolve • If ...a DNS hostname does not resolve, your name server (DNS server). Re-enable the queue with a printer that does not support PDF data, the job does not print correctly. • PostScript emulation queues can print PostScript emulation data. • PCL emulation queues ...
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...the queue is attached to help you read through the symptoms covered in this is a network printer, and the problem is being used - Enter the following information: - What printers are involved • If this troubleshooting section to the system - What applications, if any, ...are involved - How the printer is configured - Additional problems • Before you call Customer Support, make sure you diagnose the problem. • Before calling Customer Support, gather the following on the command line, and then press Enter: # ...
...the queue is attached to help you read through the symptoms covered in this is a network printer, and the problem is being used - Enter the following information: - What printers are involved • If this troubleshooting section to the system - What applications, if any, ...are involved - How the printer is configured - Additional problems • Before you call Customer Support, make sure you diagnose the problem. • Before calling Customer Support, gather the following on the command line, and then press Enter: # ...
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...don't have access to the Internet, you . All rights reserved. Trademarks Lexmark and Lexmark with other countries. For Lexmark technical support, visit support.lexmark.com. Evaluation and verification of Lexmark International, Inc., registered in conjunction with diamond design are periodically made at ... that product, program, or service may be made to the commands. 41 This printer is Hewlett-Packard Company's designation of a set of Lexmark International, Inc. This publication could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are trademarks...
...don't have access to the Internet, you . All rights reserved. Trademarks Lexmark and Lexmark with other countries. For Lexmark technical support, visit support.lexmark.com. Evaluation and verification of Lexmark International, Inc., registered in conjunction with diamond design are periodically made at ... that product, program, or service may be made to the commands. 41 This printer is Hewlett-Packard Company's designation of a set of Lexmark International, Inc. This publication could include technical inaccuracies or typographical errors. Changes are trademarks...
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... The state of a print queue when print jobs are passed through networks. See Domain Name System. Software that support both PostScript and PCL emulation printer languages. The version of the serial communication. Although it is often referred to as computers. The transmission speed of.... Something that specifies how packets are sent from TCP, it is a separate protocol from the print queue to identify a network printer or computer. The external print server allows network connectivity of new print jobs. A standard protocol that resolves IP addresses to hostnames The...
... The state of a print queue when print jobs are passed through networks. See Domain Name System. Software that support both PostScript and PCL emulation printer languages. The version of the serial communication. Although it is often referred to as computers. The transmission speed of.... Something that specifies how packets are sent from TCP, it is a separate protocol from the print queue to identify a network printer or computer. The external print server allows network connectivity of new print jobs. A standard protocol that resolves IP addresses to hostnames The...
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... print queues 19 creating virtual devices 18 printing from 24 CUPS 39 Customer Support, contacting 40 D default settings 34 Device Manager 17 duplex printing 26 H holding print jobs 28 hostname troubleshooting 38 I installing printer drivers before installing 8 finding space 13 on Debian Linux 11 on HP-...Linux 11 on Ubuntu Linux 11 L Lines Per Page, setting 27 Linux, using 7 M multiple copies 26 N notices 41 O operating systems, supported 8 P Plugin Manager utility 31 plugins installing 31 removing 31 plug-ins using scripts to manage 31 plug-ins, managing using the Plugin Manager utility...
... print queues 19 creating virtual devices 18 printing from 24 CUPS 39 Customer Support, contacting 40 D default settings 34 Device Manager 17 duplex printing 26 H holding print jobs 28 hostname troubleshooting 38 I installing printer drivers before installing 8 finding space 13 on Debian Linux 11 on HP-...Linux 11 on Ubuntu Linux 11 L Lines Per Page, setting 27 Linux, using 7 M multiple copies 26 N notices 41 O operating systems, supported 8 P Plugin Manager utility 31 plugins installing 31 removing 31 plug-ins using scripts to manage 31 plug-ins, managing using the Plugin Manager utility...