Managing Printers

All of the printers configured on your system are listed on the Printer Management screen. The menus at the top of Printer Management screen contain all of the options necessary for managing your printers, including the following tasks:

checking the status of printer
enabling a printer
disabling a printer
setting the printer outfence

To access Printer Management

You must be in system administrator mode to perform Printer Management tasks.

Move the cursor to Printer Management on the Main menu.
Press either F3, Return, or Spacebar.

The Printer Management screen provides information about all of the print devices on the system, including the following:

name of the printer
status of the printer (enabled or disabled)
current outfence set for the printer

The following figure illustrates the Printer Management screen.

Figure 7-5 Printer Management

To check the status of a printer

You can check the status of printers on your system from the Printer Management screen.

The status of a printer can be any one of the following:

`This status`	`Means this`
`ENABLED`	The system administrator has enabled the printer. It is available for printing.
`DISABLED`	The system administrator has disabled the printer. If you route your print files to this printer, they will not print until the printer is enabled.
`UNKNOWN`	This status indicates a problem with the printer or printing program. Contact your system administrator for assistance.

To enable a printer

If you are the system administrator, you can enable a printer. This task activates a printer and makes it available for printing.

Select one or more printers from the Printer Management screen.
Press F2 A to open the Actions menu.
Press E for Enable.

To disable a printer

If you are the system administrator, you can disable a printer. This task stops a printer and makes it unavailable for printing.

Select one or more printers from the Printer Management screen.
Press F2 A to open the Actions menu.
Press D for Disable.

To set the printer outfence

If you are the system administrator, you can set the printer outfence. By increasing the outfence, you can prevent files from printing. The outfence can be any value from 1 to 14. If the outfence is set at 5, for example, then only those print files with a priority of 6 or higher can print.

Select one or more printers from the Printer Management screen.
Press F2 A to open the Actions menu.
Press O for Set Outfence.
A dialog box prompts you to type the new outfence.
Type the outfence number.
Press F5 {{OK}} to set the outfence.

To set the HP Easytime/iX printer

You can specify a printer for all printing initiated in HP Easytime/iX, for example, print files, listings of system errors, or backup reports. Unless saved by the system administrator, this setting is valid until you exit HP Easytime/iX.

Press F2 O to open the Options menu.
Press P for Set Printer
A dialog box prompts you to select a printer.
Select a printer from the list.
If you are the system administrator, you can press F6 {{Save}} to save this setting permanently.
Or, press F5 {{OK}} to set the printer for this session only.