4.4. Printers

The Printers function allows you to manage all printers on the iSeries server. It combines the operations associated with writers, printer devices, and output queues into one logical printer rather than having to work with each separately. In a 5250 screen environment, this function is equivalent to using the Work with All Printers (WRKWTR) OS/400 command.

As shown in Figure 4-7, expanding the Printers folder lists the printers in the left pane and selecting the Printers folder displays the list view of configured printers in the details pane, This figure is also used to show the context menu of possible actions.

Figure 4-7. Printers and context menu example

When you right-click a printer device (Printer column), you are ...

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