The PCONSOLE utility

Mounting printer forms

Printer forms can be designated in an effort to prevent your printer from printing a print job on the wrong paper. When the print server detects a print job in the queue, and that print job calls for a form different from the one currently mounted in the intended printer, the print job will not be serviced until a new form is mounted. Each printer form has a unique name and number.

Mounting a printer form consists of two elements:

Changing the paper. NetWare has no way of determining whether the paper was actually changed or not. It relies on information it receives from the operator.
Mounting the form through the software. This is the information that NetWare receives from the operator and that is required in order for printing to continue.

To mount a printer form, you need to meet the following prerequisites.

The print server must be loaded and accessible.
The printer must be installed and assigned to the print server.
A queue must be created and assigned to the printer.
At least one print form must have been created.

For information on creating printer forms with PRINTDEF, see ``Creating or modifying printer forms''.

For information on creating printer forms with NetWare Administrator, see ``Creating printer forms''.

To mount a printer form with PCONSOLE, use the following procedure.

Enter PCONSOLE and choose a specific printer from the Printers option of the Available Options menu.
Highlight the ``Printer status'' field and press <Enter>.
Highlight the ``Mounted form'' field in the printer information screen and type the number of the form you wish the printer to service. Then press <Enter>.
Print jobs using that form in the print queue will now print.

Printer forms also can be mounted in NetWare Administrator, at the print server console, and from the command line using PSC. Procedures for each method are described in ``Print device definitions and printer forms''.