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lpadmin -- Command Administer the lp print-spooler system lpadmin [-dprinter] lpadmin [-pprinter] [-vdevice] [-mbackend] lpadmin [-xprinter] The command lpadmin administers the lp print-spooling system. Under the lp spooler, the system administrator gives each printer a name. She also establishes a script for each class of printers; for example, she would prepare one script for all Epson printers, and another for all PostScript printers. The script lists commands that must be executed to print the text properly, such as setting the port into the correct mode or post-processing the text; Finally, she inserts into file /usr/spool/mlp/controls an entry that links a printer by name with its device and its script. When a user spools a job for printing, she selects the printer by name. (She can also use the command route establish a default printer for herself.) The print spooler lpsched reads the information established by the administrator to ensure that printing is managed correctly. The command lpadmin is designed to make it easy for you to perform these tasks of administration. With lpadmin, you can add a new printer to your COHERENT system and link it to a device and a description script. You can also add or modify a description script, or drop a printer. lpadmin recognizes the following options: -dprinter Make printer the default printer for your system. This is the printer that is used when a user names no printer on the lp command line and has set no default printer for herself. -mscript Use script to preprocess all text sent to a given printer. script is stored in directory /usr/spool/mlp/backend. This option is always used with option -p. -pprinter Select printer for definition or change. This option is used with the options -m and -v. -vdevice Associate device (a serial or parallel port) with the printer named in the option -p. -xprinter Remove printer from the system. For detailed examples of how to modify the file controls and how to build a control script for a printer, see the Lexicon entry for controls. See Also commands, controls, lp, printer