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If you have printers that accept changeable font cartridges and you have listed the font cartridges allowed on each, users can submit a print request to use a particular font cartridge. However, if the font cartridge is not mounted when a user requests to use it, the job waits in the queue until you mount the font cartridge. See ``Specifying font cartridges to use with a printer''. If a form (or font cartridge) is not mounted when you print a file and specify that form, the job waits in the queue until you mount the appropriate form. See ``Mounting a form''.
In these cases, you might want to set up the print system to alert you when you need to mount a form. You can specify that you are to receive alerts when the number of requests waiting for a font cartridge or form exceeds some threshold.
To arrange for alerting to the need to mount a form, enter:
lpforms -f form_name -A alert_method -Q number -W minutes
For example, to direct the print service to send electronic mail
alerts every 5 minutes whenever the printer queue contains
2 or more requests for the check form and it is not
already mounted, enter:
lpforms -f check -A mail -Q 2 -W 5
To arrange for alerting to the need to mount a
font cartridge, enter:
lpadmin -S font_cartridge_name -A alert_method -Q number -W minutes
For example, to direct the print service to write alerts to your terminal
every 2 minutes whenever the printer queue contains three or more
requests for the dingbat font cartridge
and it is not already mounted, enter:
lpadmin -S dingbat -A write -Q 3 -W 2
To arrange for alerting whenever the queue contains requests
for any form or font cartridge, enter one of the following:
lpforms -f any -A mail -W 5
lpadmin -S any -A mail -W 5
To stop receiving alert messages to mount a form or font cartridge,
enter one of the following:
lpforms -f form_name -A quiet
lpadmin -S font_cartridge_name -A quiet
To remove alerting when a form or font cartridge needs to be mounted,
enter one of the following:
lpforms -f form_name -A none
lpadmin -S font_cartridge_name -A none
If you do not define an alert method for a form or font cartridge, you do not receive an alert for it. If you define a method, but do not define the number of minutes between alerts (with the -W option), you receive one alert for each occasion.
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