Command Interface to lp

The lp spooling utility allows:

• Grouping printers together into logical classes to maximize throughput. (These printers need not be the same type.)

• Configuring your system to spool to a class of printers.

• Queueing print requests so they (jobs) can be processed by the next available printer.

• Canceling a print request, so that an unnecessary job is not printed.

• Starting and stopping lp from processing print requests.

• Changing printer configurations.

• Reporting the status of the lp scheduler.

• Restarting any printing that was not completed if the system was powered down.

• Moving print requests and queues from one printer or class of printers to another.

User Command Summary

Administrator Command Summary