Setting Up The Printer In Unix - Intermec EasyCoder PF2i User Manual

Chapter 3 — Setting Up the Printer in Unix and Linux

Setting Up the Printer in UNIX

Th e example below shows how to set up an EasyCoder PF4i printer in a
SunOS 5.7 environment.
1 Login as root.
2 Verify that the printer is online.
# ping <internet address>
<internet address> is alive
3 Edit the printer confi gfuration fi le on your system.
# vi /etc/printers.conf
# If you hand edit this file, comments and
# structure may change.
# The preferred method of modifying this file
# is through the use of
# lpset(1M) or fncraete_printer(1M)
#
pr1:\
:bsdaddr=<internet address>,raw:
4 Stop and start the Print services.
# /etc/init.d/lp stop
#/etc/init.d/lp start
5 Check the status of the printer.
# lpstat pr1
EasyCoder PF4i LPD
Status idle
6 Print out a test label.
# lp -d pr1 ./fptest.txt
request id is pr1-1 (1 file)
# lpstat -a pr1
pr1 accepting request since <date & time>
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