Creating a Printer Class

A printer class is created when you assign the first printer to it with HP SMH or the lpadmin command. For information on what printer classes are, see HP-UX System Administrator's Guide: Overview.

You can assign a local printer or a network printer to a class.

You cannot assign a remote printer to a local printer class. However, you can create the class on the remote system and designate the class name as a remote printer on the local system.

You can use HP SMH to add a printer to a printer class when the printer is being added to the spooler; otherwise, you must use HP-UX commands.

Creating a Printer Class Using HP-UX Commands

To use HP-UX commands, follow these steps after several printers have been added to the LP spooler:

1. Ensure that you have superuser capabilities.

2. Create the printer class, specifying a printer you want to add to the class of printers.

   For example, to add a printer named laser1 to the class of printers named laser, enter:

   # /usr/sbin/lpadmin -plaser1 -claser

   Only one printer can be added to a class at a time. If you have more than one printer to add, repeat this command.

3. Allow print requests to be accepted for the newly added printer class. For example:

   # /usr/sbin/accept laser

4. Start the LP spooler if it is not already running:

   # /usr/sbin/lpsched