Printer Types Currently Unsupported

To configure a currently unsupported type of printer, you must develop and add a predefined printer definition for your printer. This new option is then entered in the list of available choices when the user selects a printer to configure for the system. The actual data used by the printer subsystem comes from the Customized printer definition created by the mkvirprt command.

Adding a New Printer Type to Your System provides general instructions for adding an undefined printer. To add an undefined printer, you modify an existing printer definition. Undefined printers fall into two categories:

• Printers that closely emulate a supported printer. You can use SMIT or the virtual printer commands to make the changes you need.
• Printers that do not emulate a supported printer or that emulate several data streams. It is simpler to make the necessary changes for these printers by editing the printer colon file. See Adding a Printer Using the Printer Colon File in Printers and printing.

Adding an Unsupported Device to the System offers an overview of the major steps required to add an unsupported device of any type to your system.