Compaq DECprint Supervisor (DCPS) for OpenVMS
System Manager's Guide

Contents

Preface
Preface	Preface
Chapter 1
1	DECprint Supervisor Overview
1.1	Purpose of the DECprint Supervisor Software
1.2	DECprint Supervisor Software Components
1.2.1	The Print Symbiont
1.2.2	Device Control Libraries
1.2.3	Translators
Chapter 2
2	Setting Up Printers
2.1	Non-PrintServer Printers
2.1.1	Networked Printers
2.1.1.1	Raw TCP/IP Printers
2.1.1.2	LAT Printers
2.1.1.2.1	Configuring the Printer for LAT Access
2.1.1.2.2	Setting DECserver LAT Port Characteristics
2.1.1.2.3	Editing the LAT Configuration File
2.1.1.2.4	Setting the Communications Speed
2.1.1.3	AppleTalk Printers
2.1.2	Directly-Connected Serial Printers
2.1.3	General Information
2.1.3.1	Supported Printers
2.1.3.2	Setting the printer timeout
2.1.3.3	Changing the Printer Password
2.1.3.4	Setting the Printer Name
2.2	DIGITAL PrintServer Printers
2.2.1	Defining PrintServer TCP/IP Network Nodes
2.2.2	Defining PrintServer DECnet Network Nodes
2.2.3	Deleting the PrintServer Client Startup File
Chapter 3
3	Creating and Modifying Print Queues
3.1	If You Are Installing the Software for the First Time
3.2	If You Are Upgrading From DECprint Printing Services Software (CPS)
3.3	Setting Up Execution Queues
3.3.1	Supplying the Name of the Execution Queue (P1)
3.3.2	Supplying the Printer Device Name (P2)
3.3.2.1	If Your Printer Is On a TCP/IP Network and Uses Raw TCP/IP Sockets
3.3.2.2	If Your Printer Is On a LAT Network or Directly Connected
3.3.2.3	If Your PrintServer Printer Is Part of a TCP/IP Network
3.3.2.4	If Your PrintServer Printer Is Part of a DECnet Network
3.3.2.5	If Your Printer Is Part of an AppleTalk Network
3.3.3	Supplying the Library Logical Name (P3)
3.3.4	Assigning Default PRINT Command Parameters to the Queue (P4)
3.3.5	Supplying Default Queue Attributes (P5)
3.3.6	Setting the Speed for Serial Printers (P6)
3.3.7	Supplying SET DEVICE Qualifiers to the Queue (P7)
3.3.8	Enabling SET VERIFY When Initializing the Queue (P8)
3.4	Customizing Execution Queue Behavior
3.4.1	Running DCPS as a Multistreamed Process
3.4.1.1	Managing Print Queues When Running Multistreamed
3.4.1.2	Changing the DCPS Environment When Running Multistreamed
3.4.1.3	Determing the Proper Value for DCPS$MAX_STREAMS
3.4.2	Interrupting Busy Printers When a Job Starts
3.4.3	Suppressing PostScript Synchronization When a Job Starts
3.4.4	Purging the Symbiont Process's Working Set
3.4.5	Suppressing the OPCOM Message USERNOTFOUND
3.4.6	Using Old ANSI Translator Page Size for A4 Landscape
3.5	Setting Up Generic Queues
3.6	Activating Changes to the Queue Definitions
3.7	Testing the Printing System
Chapter 4
4	Providing Automatic Data Type Detection
4.1	How DCPS Automatically Detects Data Type
4.2	Specifying Automatic Data Type Detection
4.2.1	Linking File Extensions with Data Types
4.2.2	Specifying Default Data Types for the System and Queues
4.2.3	How Users Control Data Type Detection
Chapter 5
5	Manipulating Print Jobs and Print Queues
5.1	Displaying Print Job Status
5.2	Deleting a Print Job
5.3	Releasing a Print Job in the Holding State
5.4	Requeuing Print Jobs
5.4.1	Requeuing Pending Print Jobs
5.4.2	Requeuing the Currently Printing Job to Another Queue
5.4.3	Requeuing Current and Future Print Jobs in a Queue
5.5	Modifying the Attributes of a Print Job
5.6	Displaying a Queue
5.7	Pausing a Queue
5.8	Starting a Queue
5.9	Modifying the Attributes of a Queue
5.10	Preventing Users from Printing to a Queue
5.11	Deleting a Queue
5.12	Responding to a Stalled Queue
5.13	Stopping and Starting the Queue Manager