OpenSolaris 2008.11 System Administration Guide
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Setting Up Printers by Using the OpenSolaris Print Manager
When you connect a new local USB printer to your computer, the printer is auto-discovered, and the Add Printer Queue dialog opens automatically. This dialog contains configuration information about the printer. If you choose, you can provide additional configuration information for the printer in this dialog. The Add Printer Queue dialog allows you to check or change the configuration information for a newly discovered local or network printer. You can also use this dialog to manually add a printer that, for any reason, was not automatically discovered. The Add Printer Queue dialog is opened from the Printer menu or by clicking the Add icon on the toolbar. The Add Printer Queue dialog looks and behaves almost the same as the Printer Queue Properties dialog, with a few minor differences.
When a new network printer is auto-discovered, a printer queue is automatically created for the new printer. At the same time, a notification message appears on the desktop in the panel notification area. Clicking the message launches Print Manager. From here, you can customize the configuration information for the new network printer queue. To enable the automatic detection of network printers, first select the Auto-detect network printers option in the Network tab of the Print Manager Preferences dialog. The following pages include other procedures using the OpenSolaris Print Manager. |
