About This Manual

This manual describes how to configure and administer Advanced Printing Software on systems running the HP Tru64 UNIX operating system.

Audience

This manual is intended for system administrators or print system operators. Administrators should have knowledge of the operating system concepts and commands and the hardware and software configuration of their systems.

Related Software

Advanced Printing Software features PrintXchange technology developed and marketed by Xerox Corporation.

Organization

This manual is organized as follows:

Chapter 1 Provides an overview of Advanced Printing Software. It describes the features and functions of the print system and describes the components that comprise it.
Chapter 2 Describes what you need to consider when planning an Advanced Printing Software installation and lists tasks required to configure a print system.
Chapter 3 Describes how to configure and manage the naming services for Advanced Printing Software.
Chapter 4 Describes the security features of Advanced Printing Software and how to set up and configure security.
Chapter 5 Describes how to create and manage spoolers and supervisors.
Chapter 6 Describes how to create and manage queues, logical printers, and physical printers.
Chapter 7 Describes how to submit and manage print jobs.
Chapter 8 Describes document data filtering.
Chapter 9 Describes how to set the event notification features of Advanced Printing Software.
Chapter 10 Describes how to configure and manage an LPD inbound gateway.
Chapter 11 Describes how to configure and manage an LPD Outbound Gateway.
Chapter 12 Describes common problems that might be encountered with Advanced Printing Software.
Appendix A Provides a brief description of the settable object attributes.
Appendix B Describes the format of the ONC binding entries used by the naming services.
Appendix C Contains the printer data sheets for the supported printers.
Glossary Provides definitions of terms, acronyms, and abbreviations used in the documentation.

Related Documentation

The following documents and on-line help are available to support Advanced Printing Software users and administrators.

Advanced Printing Software Installation Guide Describes how to install the print system subsets.
Advanced Printing Software Command Reference Guide Describes all of the command line interface commands available to users and administrators.
Advanced Printing Software User Guide Describes how to submit and monitorjobs for print.
Advanced Printing Software Release Notes Describes new or changed features, restrictions, known problems, and fixed problems.
GUI Help Files On-line help is accessible from the pdprintadmin, pdprint, and pdprintinfo GUI client files.

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Conventions

This manual uses the following typographical and symbol conventions:

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A percent sign represents the C shell system prompt. A dollar sign represents the system prompt for the Bourne, Korn, and POSIX shells.

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Italic (slanted) type indicates variable values, placeholders, and function argument names.

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In syntax definitions, brackets indicate items that are optional and braces indicate items that are required. Vertical bars separating items inside brackets or braces indicate that you choose one item from among those listed.

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In syntax definitions, literal elements are colored green. Variable values, placeholders, and function argument names are colored red. No special colored text is used outside of syntax descriptions.

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A cross-reference to a reference page includes the appropriate section number in parentheses. For example, cat(1) indicates that you can find information on the cat command in Section 1 of the reference pages.