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Configuring and Managing Printing in Oracle® Solaris 11.3

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Updated: December 2017

Configuring and Managing Printing in Oracle^® Solaris 11.3

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Using This Documentation

Chapter 1 Setting Up and Administering Printers by Using CUPS (Overview)

Chapter 2 Setting Up Printers by Using CUPS (Tasks)

Chapter 3 Administering Printers by Using CUPS Print Manager (Tasks)

Administering Printers by Using CUPS Print Manager (Task Map)

Administering Printers by Using CUPS Print Manager

Configurable Printer Properties

How to Modify the Properties of a Configured Printer

How to Rename a Printer

How to Copy a Printer Configuration

How to Delete a Printer

How to Unshare or Share a Printer

How to Disable or Enable a Printer

How to Manage Print Jobs for a Specified Printer

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How to Delete a Printer

Start the CUPS Print Manager GUI by choosing System → Administration → Print Manager from the desktop's main menubar or by typing the following command in a terminal window:
```
$ system-config-printer
```
The Printer configuration dialog appears, listing all of the configured printers and any newly detected printers.
Right-click the name of the printer that you want to delete, then choose Delete.
Click OK in the Confirm Deletion dialog.

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