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Producing Output with Xprint V7.0 Selecting a printer
3.3 Selecting a printer
Xprint V7.0 allows you to print documents on any printer within your Xprint V7.0
domain. You can select any printer for your printout for which you have the
required privileges.
There are two possible ways of selecting printers or printer groups for printing
in Xprint V7.0. Firstly, you can specify one specific printer (group) for a print job,
and secondly, you can define one or more printers as your personal default
printers:
If you do not specify a specific printer (group) for your print job, Xprint V7.0 will
select a suitable printer according to the options specified for the print job (e.g.
double-sided printing, landscape format).
Specifying a printer or printer group for a print job
You can select the printer on which you want to print your document according
to various criteria. There are the following options:
-de destination
This option allows you to select a printer or printer group. If you select a
printer group, Xprint V7.0 sends your job to a device which belongs to this
group. Xprint V7.0 has a load balancing procedure which ensures the
jobs will be distributed effectively between the printers in the group. You
can display a list of the available printers via the xpshow -dev command.
The available printer groups can be displayed with the xpshow -dgr
command.
-pc pcl
Instead of selecting a specific printer by its name, you can also use the
printer capability list pcl as a criterion, e.g. POSTSCRIPT, HP-LASERJET or
HP-DESKJET. In this case, Xprint V7.0 sends your job to any available
printer which uses the selected PCL.
Addressing a printer via a gateway
You can also select a printer (group) which is not defined in your Xprint V7.0
domain, provided it can be reached via a gateway. This applies to
printers/printer groups which are available in other Xprint V7.0 domains or
which are connected to computers running the DPRINT printer spooler (for
BS2000 systems) or the BSD printer spooler (for BSD-UNIX systems and other
systems with an lpd print server).