Managing Printer in Oracle APPS

We can Add New printer in Operating System with two procedures. One is Command Line procedure and second is Manual Procedure. Bellow I am describing how to Add printer in OS, How to Test the printer Locally and How to cancel the print job and more……

Add the printer in Operating System (Command Line Procedure)?

Step 1 Log on OS Server with root user

Step 2 Execute following command:
# lpadmin –p -s

Add printer in OS (Manual Procedure) ?

Step 1 Take the backup of printers.conf file (location of this file is /etc )

Step 2 Add the printer information in /etc/printers.conf file (Like Printer Name, Printer IP ADDRESS)

Test the Printer locally from Server?

After adding the printer in Server. You must test the printer that printer is working or not. You must follow following steps:

Step 1 log on Server as root user

Step 2 Fire the test print from server to network printer
# lp –d

Step 3 after that check the printer queue by using following command
# lpstat –o

cancel the Print Job?

Step 1 Log in as s Root user and check the printer queue by using following command
# lpstat –o

Step 2 Cancel the id of printer queue
# Cancel

Delete printer in OS?

Log in as a root user and execute following command
#lpadmin – x

Disable banner page with every print request?

Log in a root user and execute following command:

#loadmin –o banner –p