Ricoh Aficio SP 5200DN, Operation And Use Manual

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Printer Status
You can use the following commands to have information and printer status displayed or copied to a file.
Use the lpq or lpstat command to display the status of the printer or information about print jobs.
Use the rsh, rcp or ftp commands to get more detailed information from the printer.
Viewing the Print Job Status with lpq and lpstat
BSD UNIX workstation, Linux
% lpq -Pprinter_name
For example: Printer name is np
% lpq -Pnp
System V UNIX, Solaris, HP-UX
% lpstat -o printer_name
For example: Printer name is np
% lpstat -o np
• If you are using HP-UX, do not put a space between "-o" and "printer name".
Viewing the Printer Status with rsh and ftp
Use the rsh or ftp command to display printer status or information about print jobs using specified
parameters.
You can use these commands for BSD and System V UNIX.
If your workstation is HP-UX, use the remsh command instead of rsh.
• rsh
% rsh host_name parameter
• ftp
% ftp host_name
User:
password:
ftp> get parameter -
Parameters that can be used with rsh, rcp and ftp :
Printer Status
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