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Guide to Printers and Printing

Adding Plotter Support with 5080

Prerequisites

Procedure

The 5080 Attachment Adapter plotter backend is accessible with the enq command after you use this procedure to identify the plotters.

  1. At the system prompt, type:
    smit pq_mklque

  2. At the NAME of Queue to Add prompt, type:
    plta
    to define serial porta.

  3. At the NAME of Device to Add prompt, type:
    plota
    to define serial port a:

  4. For BACKEND PROGRAM Pathname, type:
    /usr/lib/lpd/plotgbe -gswa 9600

  5. At the NAME of Queue to Add prompt, enter the following to define serial port b:
    pltb

  6. At the NAME of Queue to Add prompt, type:
    pltb
    to define serial port b.

  7. For BACKEND PROGRAM Pathname, type:
    /usr/lib/lpd/plotgbe -gswa 9600

  8. 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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