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Adding Printers in OS/2
84 AXIS 5500 / AXIS 5550 User’s Manual
Creating
a Print Queue
(OS/2 version 2.x
and OS/2 Warp)
1. Double-click the Templates folder, then drag the Printer icon out to the
Workplace Shell (or into a folder) while holding the right mouse button
down.
2. Type a name of your choice in the Name field.
3. Select \PIPE\<name>.<port>, from the Port list, and select a printer driver
suitable for your printer from the Standard Printer list.
4. Click OK to confirm the printer definition.
Sharing the
Print Queue
A print queue must be made a shared resource before it can be accessed
from other clients or servers. The following three examples show how you
can share your printer resources:
Open an OS/2 window and issue the following command:
NET SHARE <queue_name> /PRINT
Where <queue_name> is the name of the queue created on the previous
side.
To share a printer resource when using OS/2 Warp with IBM Peer service,
follow the steps below:
1. Click the right mouse button on the printer object.
2. Select Share and then Start sharing. In the dialog box, enter a Description.
3. Select the check-box Start sharing at LAN workstation start-up.
4. Click OK.
To share a printer resource when using LAN server 4.0, follow the steps
below:
1. Open LAN Server Administration.
2. Open your domain and then Resource Definition.
3. Drag and drop a printer from the template.
4. Enter the Alias name, select a Server name and the previously created
Spooler Queue Name.
5. Click OK.
The setup is completed and you can now print through your print server.
Ports available USB port Parallel port
AXIS 5500 US1 —
AXIS 5550 US1 LP1