Enabling and disabling printers

In the Printer Setup Manager, select (or double-click on) the desired printer, select Printer Control, then select Enabled or Disabled.

When you add a printer with the Printer Setup Manager, the printer is enabled automatically. When you want to perform maintenance or halt printing for another reason, disable the printer. A disabled printer continues to accept print jobs (the jobs are added to the queue), but does not print them. If the printer was printing a job when it was disabled, the printer will start the print job from the beginning when it is enabled.

Enabling printing allows the scheduler, lpsched, to print files on the printer.

See also:

• ``Managing print jobs''

• ``Accepting or rejecting print jobs''

• ``Starting and stopping the print service''

• enable(1M) (for command-line interface)

• disable(1M) (for command-line interface)

• lpsched(1M) (for command-line interface)