If you are using a UNIX, Linux, or Mac OS X computer, you can override the settings made by the SGD Administrator and configure printers on the computer.
Typically, your SGD Administrator configures the available
client printers for you to use. However, if you are printing
from a UNIX, Linux, or Mac OS X platform computer, you can
override these settings and configure your own client printers.
You do this by defining them in a client printer configuration
file in your home directory at
$HOME/.tarantella/printerinfo.txt
. This
file is not installed by default. You must create this file, or
ask your SGD Administrator for a template file that you can
install and edit.
The format of the printer configuration file is as follows:
[UNIX] "printer_name"="windows_driver" printer_type "printer_name"="windows_driver" printer_type...
printer_name
is the name of the printer as it
is known to the lp or lpr
system on the computer.
windows_driver
is the name of the printer
driver to use when printing from a Microsoft Windows application
server.
printer_type
is the format to be used for the
print job. The values can be PostScript, PCL, or Text.
An example of a client printer configuration file is as follows:
[UNIX] "drafts"="HP DeskJet 970Cxi" PCL "salesprinter"="HP LaserJet 5/5M" PostScript
This defines two client printers: drafts
and
salesprinter
. You can then use the following
command to print from a UNIX platform application to
salesprinter
:
$ lp -d salesprinter file