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Configuring a Network Printer

To configure a printer available on your network, click on the Configure Printer button. The Configure Network Printer dialog box will appear on your display:

Then you can add a new printer to the LPR printer list, or remove a printer from the list.

To close the Configure Network Printer dialog box, click on the Close button.

Adding a New Network Printer

Before you add a new printer to the LPR printer list, you must define a server/printer combination. You can designate one as the default printer. The default printer will be the current printer each time you start the LPR program.

Use the following items:

Host
This field is used to specify a network name or address of the print server computer. When you click on the scroll arrow beside the Host box, a drop-down box will display host definitions stored in your hosts file. To select a host, click on the appropriate definition.

Printer name
This field is used to specify a name of the printer attached to the host in the Host edit box.

Use as default printer
This check box allows you to assign the printer you just defined as the default LPR printer.

To add the printer you just specified to the LPR printer list, click on the Add button. The new server/printer combination will be displayed in the Network printer list box.

Make sure that your PC name is defined in the /etc/hosts.equiv file or /etc/hosts.lpd file on the host UNIX system, and the Page Width setting corresponds to your remote printer. If there is no entry in the host's /etc/hosts.equiv file or /etc/hosts.lpd file for the user, and the user tries to print a file, LPR responds with the host error message that the user has no access to a line printer.

Deleting a Network Printer

In order to remove a printer from the LPR printer list, select an appropriate server/printer combination in the Network printer list box, and then click on the Delete button. The combination selected will disappear in the Network printer list box, and the printer will become unavailable for use with the LPR program.

You can select and delete more than one printer at once.

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