Printer Status; Viewing The Print Job Status With Lpq And Lpstat; Viewing The Printer Status With Rsh And Ftp - Lanier AP4510 Setup Manual

UNIX Configuration

Printer Status

You can use the following commands to have information and the printer status
displayed or copied to a file.
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Use the lpq or lpstat command to display the status of the printer or information
about print jobs.
Use the rsh, rcp or ftp commands to get more detailed information from the
printer.

Viewing the Print Job Status with lpq and lpstat

❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ BSD UNIX workstation, Linux
% lpq -Pprinter_name
For example: Printer name is np
% lpq -Pnp
❖ ❖ ❖ ❖ System V UNIX, Solaris, HP-UX
% lpstat -o printer_name
For example: Printer name is np
% lpstat -o np
Note
❒ In case of HP-UX, do not put a space between "-o" and "printer name".

Viewing the Printer Status with rsh and ftp

Use the rsh or ftp command to display the status of the printer or information
about print jobs using specified parameters.
You can use these commands for BSD and System V UNIX.
Note
❒ If your workstation is HP-UX, use the remsh command instead of the rsh.
% rsh host_name parameter
% ftp host_name
User user_name
password:
ftp> get parameter -
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