Printing and print jobs

Printing in AIX offers a myriad of configuration and setup options.

Depending on the printer you use, the AIX® operating system controls the appearance and characteristics of the final output. The printers are not required to be in the same area as the system unit and the system console. You might decide to attach your printer directly to a local system, or your situation might require you to send print jobs over a network to a remote system.

To handle print jobs with maximum efficiency, the AIX operating system places each job into a queue to await printer availability. The system can save output from one or more files in the queue. As the printer produces the output from one file, the system processes the next job in the queue. This process continues until each job in the queue is printed.