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Guide to Printers and Printing
Adding Plotter Support with 5080
Prerequisites
- The plotter must be physically attached to your system.
- The plotter device must have already been added.
Procedure
The 5080 Attachment Adapter plotter backend is accessible with the enq command after you use this procedure to identify the plotters.
- At the system prompt, type:
smit pq_mklque
- At the NAME of Queue to Add prompt, type:
plta
to define serial porta.
- At the NAME of Device to Add prompt, type:
plota
to define serial port a:
- For BACKEND PROGRAM Pathname, type:
/usr/lib/lpd/plotgbe -gswa 9600
- At the NAME of Queue to Add prompt, enter the following to define serial port b:
pltb
- At the NAME of Queue to Add prompt, type:
pltb
to define serial port b.
- For BACKEND PROGRAM Pathname, type:
/usr/lib/lpd/plotgbe -gswa 9600
- Attach the plotter to either port a or port b.
You can also perform this task with the
mkque and mkquedev commands. Additional flags are required to add plotter support.
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