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Configuring your host
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For UNIX environments, Tektronix offers PhaserPrint software, which provides fast raster printing and a graphical user interface with push-button control of printer features. For more information on PhaserPrint software, see Tektronix PhaserPrint software for UNIX environments.
For VMS environments, Tektronix offers PhaserSym OpenVMS Print Services, a VMS print symbiont. PhaserSym software is available as upgrade kit 4690F41.
Note: If want to print using Tektronix PhaserPrint 2.0 software, you must use PhaserPrint
software to configure your host. Refer to the PhaserPrint 2.0 user manual or the
instructions provided with the PhaserPrint CD-ROM for configuration information. If
you do not have PhaserPrint software, refer to Tektronix PhaserPrint software for UNIX
environments for more information.
Add the printer to the host table
Add the printer's name to the host table and assign an IP address to the printer's name. Depending on your host system, you may use NIS (Name Information Server, formerly Yellow Pages) or, on a system without NIS, you may have to edit a file (for example, /etc/hosts). For an example, see Example installation for a typical BSD system.
Assign a print queue to the printer
Required remote printer queue names
The printer's internal LPR queue uses the BSD protocol; its known queues are listed in the following table. These are the only remote queue names that the printer recognizes. If you use another name, the printer automatically defaults to AUTO.
Your printer model may not support all the languages listed in the table. See your printer's user documentation for information on the languages supported by your printer.
With some printers, PCL must be authorized with an authorization code before it can be used. If you use PCL for the remote printer queue name, make sure that PCL has been authorized in the printer. See your printer's user documentation for more information on authorization codes and PCL.
Using PostScript utility files to control printer features from queues
As you set up a spool queue for the printer, you can use the PostScript utility files provided with your printer's software to control printer features (for example, selecting upper or lower paper trays, or selecting print quality modes). See your printer's user documentation for more information on these utility files.
Example installation for a typical BSD system
The following procedure is an example spooler configuration that will work for many BSD systems, including Sun, SGI, and DEC. For information about host-specific configuration utilities for Hewlett-Packard and IBM systems, see Unix Host Configuration for TCP/IP.
In this procedure, you modify the /etc/hosts file to identify the printer to the workstation and modify the /etc/printcap file to describe the printer to the workstation.
- Log on to your system as root.
- Make a backup copy of the /etc/hosts file.
- Edit /etc/hosts and add a line that defines the printer's IP address when it was configured. The name you specify in this line is the name by which your workstation identifies the printer. (You will enter this same remote name in your /etc/printcap file in the next step).
Example:
- 134.62.33.138 Phaser340
In this example, 134.62.33.138 is the printer's IP address and Phaser340 is the printer's remote name.
- Make a backup copy of the /etc/printcap file.
- Edit /etc/printcap and add an entry for your printer. Refer to the following example and descriptions of printcap parameters to create your entry.
Sample printcap file
- # Printer: Tektronix Phaser340
# Print queue name: colorprinter
# Remote machine name: Phaser 340
# Remote printer queue name: PS
# Spool directory: /usr/spool/lpd/colorprinter
# colorprinter:
:lp=:
:rm=Phaser340:
:rp=PS:
:mx#0:
:lf=/usr/spool/lpd/ERRORLOG:
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/colorprinter:
#
The following table describes the supported printcap parameters.
- Set up spool directories. After you have edited the /etc/hosts and /etc/printcap files, you must create and set permissions for the spool directory you specified.
Example:
cd /usr/spool/lpd
mkdir colorprinter
chown daemon colorprinter
chgrp daemon colorprinter
chmod 770 colorprinter
Refer to your UNIX documentation for the correct command syntax for your workstation.
How to get host-specific instructions
If you need host-specific instructions, see Unix Host Configuration for TCP/IP.
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