New Printing Features in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment

This section describes new printing features in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment.

Solaris Print Manager

The Solaris Print Manager, previously available as part of the Solstice AdminSuite Package, is a Java-based graphical user interface that enables you to manage local and remote printers. You can use the Solaris Print Manager with NIS, NIS+, NIS+ with Federated Naming Service (xfn), and files nameservices. You must be superuser, have rights to administer printing, or be a member of a role that has rights to administer printing to use this tool. See Chapter 23, “Role-Based Access Control,” for information about rights.

Print Naming Enhancement to the Nameservice Switch File

The Solaris release supports the printers database in the /etc/nsswitch.conf nameservice switch file. The printers database provides centralized printer configuration information to print clients on the network. The Solaris Print Manager creates the printers database the first time you use it to configure a network printer. See “Enhanced Network Printer Support” for more information.

Enabling or Disabling Global Banner Page Printing

The Solaris 8 Operating Environment adds the -banner option with arguments of always, never, and optional to the lpadmin command. When banner page printing is set to optional, the banner is printed by default, but users can disable banner page printing with the lp -o nobanner command. See lpadmin(1M) for more information.