Guide to Printers and Printing

About This Book

This book contains information for understanding the print process as well as providing printer configurations.

Note: You can also view the information in this book with a Version 3.2 HTML-compatible web browser.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is for system administrators and programmers to help you resolve print-related problems. Before you read this book, you should know basic operating system commands.

This book assumes you are familiar with the information and concepts presented in the following publications:

AIX Version 4.3 System User's Guide: Operating System and Devices, SC23-4121
AIX Version 4.3 System User's Guide: Communications and Networks, SC23-4122
AIX Version 4.3 Installation Guide, SC23-4112

How to Use This Book

The following overview briefly describes the contents of each chapter of the AIX Version 4.3 Guide to Printers and Printing:

Chapter 1, "Printers, Print Jobs, and Queues Overview for Users," provides overviews and some procedures related to printing files.
Chapter 2, "Printers, Print Jobs, and Queues for System Administrators," includes information about administrative tasks related to configuring printers and spooler queues.
Chapter 3, "Spooling Overview," contains a description of the spooler components and the interactions between those components.
Chapter 4, "Printer, Plotter, and Spooler Subsystem Programming," contains an overview of spooler internals as well as detailed information needed to address the spooler programmatically or to modify the behavior of the spooler.
Chapter 5, "Spooler Troubleshooting," contains some hints, tips, and procedures for troubleshooting spooler problems.

Highlighting

The following highlighting conventions are used in this book:

Bold	Identifies commands, subroutines, keywords, files, structures, directories, and other items whose names are predefined by the system. Also identifies graphical objects such as buttons, labels, and icons that the user selects.
Italics	Identifies parameters whose actual names or values are to be supplied by the user.
`Monospace`	Identifies examples of specific data values, examples of text similar to what you might see displayed, examples of portions of program code similar to what you might write as a programmer, messages from the system, or information you should actually type.

ISO 9000

ISO 9000 registered quality systems were used in the development and manufacturing of this product.

Related Publications

The following publications contain information on managing your system, the commands and files used in the operating system.

Order Number	Bibliography
SC23-2456	AIX and Related Products Documentation Overview
SC23-4126	AIX Version 4.3 System Management Guide: Operating System and Devices
SBOF-1877	AIX Version 4.3 Commands Reference
SC23-4168	AIX Version 4.3 Files Reference

Ordering Publications

You can order publications from your sales representative or from your point of sale. To order additional copies of this book, use order number SC23-4130.

Use AIX and Related Products Documentation Overview for information on related publications and how to obtain them.