Printing And Managing Print Jobs - Fiery 750DP - Phaser Color Laser Printer Administration Manual

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3-31 Tips for experts—UNIX workstations
4. To verify the TCP/IP connection, ping the IP address or the host name. From any com-
puter on the network, at the command prompt, type:
ping <IP address>
Type the Fiery SI IP address assigned in Fiery SI Network Setup.
After the Fiery SI is set up as a network printer, you can also ping the name you gave to
the Fiery SI
ping <hostname>
The server should respond with a message such as
<IP address> is alive
Some systems will respond with a continuous display of output from the IP address. To
stop the output, type

Printing and managing print jobs

UNIX printing commands and options are detailed in the manual pages for your sys-
tem. Some examples are given in the Fiery SI Color Server User Guide.
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• On a UNIX system running SunOS 4 or other BSD-based variant, use the lpr command to
send a job to the Fiery SI.
• On a UNIX system running Solaris 2 or any System V implementation of UNIX, use the
lp command to send a job to the Fiery SI.
• Windows NT users with the TCP/IP protocol loaded can send print jobs to a Fiery SI
from their applications or from a command prompt.
Printing from applications uses the Windows NT PostScript driver. This gives
Windows NT users a larger selection of print options than printing from the com-
mand line.
Control-C. You can use the ping command at any time.