Using the Print and Hold setting

When sending a job to the printer, you can hold a job in the printer memory using the printer driver. When you are ready to print the job, access the printer control panel menus to select the held job you want to print.

  1. Open the print queue properties.

    For more information, see Changing the print queue properties.

  2. Click Print and Hold.

  3. Select the type of print and hold setting you want to apply.

  4. Click OK.

To use the confidential Print and Hold function from the command line of a Sun Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX, or Linux with CUPS system, enter the following command:

# lp -d queue_name -o print_hold=confidential -o pin_no=pin file_name

To use the confidential Print and Hold function from the command line of a Linux with the LPRng system, enter the following command:

Note:Not all printers support the Print and Hold feature. See the printer documentation to determine if the printer supports this feature.