Maintenance Functions for Physical Printers

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# Maintenance Functions for Physical Printers

The section describes the functions for the maintenance of physical printer definitions:

- Listing All Physical Printers

- Listing Selected Physical Printers

- Creating a New Physical Printer

- Modifying a Physical Printer

- Copying a Physical Printer

- Displaying a Physical Printer

- Deleting a Physical Printer

- Stopping a Physical Printer

- Starting a Physical Printer

## Listing All Physical Printers

To list all physical printers:

1. Select the System Administration > Physical Printers node in the object workspace.

2. Invoke the context menu and choose List.

   All defined physical printers which can be used in the system are displayed in the content pane.

## Listing Selected Physical Printers

To list selected physical printers:

1. Select the System Administration > Physical Printers node in the object workspace.

2. Invoke the context menu and choose Filter.

   The Filter Physical Printers window is displayed.

3. Enter a part of a printer name in the input field, and select OK.

   Only printers that start with the specified string are listed under the Physical Printers node.

## Creating a New Physical Printer

To create a new physical printer:

1. Select the Physical Printer folder in the object workspace.

2. Invoke the context menu and choose New.

   The New Physical Printer window is displayed in the content pane.

3. The attributes you can specify as part of a physical printer definition are described under Attributes of Physical Printers. Specify the attributes as desired.

4. Choose OK to save the printer definition.

## Modifying a Physical Printer

To modify the attributes of a physical printer:

1. Select an instance of the System Administration > Physical Printer in the object workspace.

2. Invoke the context menu and choose Open.

   The attributes of the selected physical printer are displayed. They are described under Attributes of Physical Printers.

3. Change the attributes as desired.

4. Choose OK to save your changes.

## Copying a Physical Printer

To copy the definitions for a physical printer:

1. Select an instance of the System Administration > Physical Printers node in the object workspace.

2. Invoke the context menu and choose Copy.

   A window is displayed.

3. Enter the target destination for the printer definition in the input field provided.

4. Confirm your choice.

   The printer definitions have been copied.

## Displaying a Physical Printer

To display a physical printer:

1. Select an instance of the System Administration > Physical Printers node in the object workspace.

2. Invoke the context menu and choose Display.

3. The physical printer definition is displayed. The settings are described under Attributes of Physical Printers.

4. Select Cancel to close the window.

## Deleting a Physical Printer

To delete a physical printer:

1. Select an instance of the System Administration > Physical Printers node in the object workspace.

2. Invoke the context menu and choose Delete.

3. Confirm your choice.

   The printer will be deleted system-wide.

## Stopping a Physical Printer

To stop a physical printer:

1. Select an instance of the System Administration > Physical Printers node in the object workspace.

2. Invoke the context menu and choose Stop.

   Or:
   Enter the direct command `STOP PHYSICAL printer-name`. You can specify the printer-name with asterisk selection (*) to stop a group of physical printers.

To stop a group of physical printers:

1. Select an instance of the System Administration > Physical Printers node in the object workspace.

2. Invoke the context menu and choose List.

3. Select the printers to be stopped.

4. Invoke the context menu and choose Stop.

The selected printer(s) will be stopped. All printouts which point to logical printers associated with the stopped physical printer(s) are put on hold.

## Starting a Physical Printer

To start a physical printer which was stopped:

1. Select an instance of the System Administration > Physical Printers node in the object workspace.

2. Invoke the context menu and choose Start.

   Or:
   Enter the direct command `START PHYSICAL printer-name`. You can specify the printer-name with asterisk selection (*) to start a group of physical printers.

To start a group of physical printers which were stopped:

1. Select an instance of the System Administration > Physical Printers node in the object workspace.

2. Invoke the context menu and choose List.

3. Select the printers to be started.

4. Invoke the context menu and choose Start.

The printer(s) which were stopped are started again. All printouts that were put on hold when the printer(s) was/were stopped will get the status they had before they were put on hold.

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- Listing All Physical Printers
- Listing Selected Physical Printers
- Creating a New Physical Printer
- Modifying a Physical Printer
- Copying a Physical Printer
- Displaying a Physical Printer
- Deleting a Physical Printer
- Stopping a Physical Printer
- Starting a Physical Printer