Setting up a printer – PB Docs 125

Adding access to the printer

As the root user, add access to the printer on Solaris using
the Solaris admintool utility. For more information,
see the Solaris documentation.

Setting up dwprint.ini

The dwprint.ini file in the $EAServer/bin directory
is the configuration file for DataWindow printing. It closely follows
the Microsoft Windows approach to printer configuration. As a result,
it includes [windows], [devices],
and [ports] sections where you must provide appropriate
entries for your printers.

You usually do not need to modify other sections in this file.
However, some problems can be resolved by adding or changing other
sections. For example, you can try adding an entry like the following
to the [intl] section to change a date format:

Specifying ports

Each line in the [ports] section of dwprint.ini contains
a user-defined port name and an associated command that is used
to spool the output file. For example, the command to send a print
job to a printer called myprinter connected
directly to your system is:

$XPDOCNAME represents the name of the output file
sent to the printer. The -s option suppresses
the display of messages sent from lp in the EAServer Server console.

The following is an example of the [ports] section
of the dwprint.ini file with two ports defined
for remote printers called prnt1 and prnt2,
one for a local printer, and an entry for printing to a file. The
name of the output file is enclosed in quotes. This enables file
names with multiple words to be used. The quotes must be escaped
for remote servers because rsh strips them out:

Matching a printer type to a defined port

The [devices] section contains a list of
all currently configured printers. Each line contains a user-defined
alias for the printer and three arguments: the printer model, the
printer mode (PCL4, PCL5, or PostScript), and one or more ports to
which the printer is connected.

The printer model is the name of the printer description file
(PPD) used by the printer. PPD files are installed in the dwprinter/ppds directory
in your PBVM installation. The text file filename_map.txt in
that directory maps the name of the file that contains the printer
description to the type of printer. For example, these are the mappings
for the color_lj model used in the
rest of the examples:

The printer model and mode are separated
by a space. The mode and port are separated by a comma. For example,
for the first device specified in the following [devices] section,
the alias is HP Color LaserJet PS, the model
is color_lj, the mode is PostScript,
and two ports are specified: FILE: and colorpr1.

Specifying a default printer

The [windows] section contains default printer
information. Like the ports specification, each device line has
three arguments: the name of the PPD file, the driver, and the port,
but in the [windows] section they are all separated
by commas.

The following example shows a default entry for printing to
a file (when the printer file description is set to NULL)
as well as two other entries. The semicolon at the beginning of
two of the lines is a comment character, so the current default
printer is the HP Color LaserJet printer on the port colorpr1.

Setting printer options

The dwprint.ini file must contain a configuration
section for each model you have defined in the [windows], [devices],
and [ports] sections. The configuration section
provides default setup information for the printer, including the
number of copies, orientation, page size, and DPI.

For example, for the color_lj printer
used in the preceding examples, add configuration sections like
this:

Setting the XPPATH environment variable

Before you start a print job, set the XPPATH environment variable.
The XPPATH variable must contain the path to a directory that includes
printer description files and printer-specific font mapping files.
This information is installed in the dwprinter directory in your
PBVM installation.

For a C shell, set the path as follows:

For a Korn shell or a Bourne shell, set the path as follows: