Setting up default printers

Each user has a number of default printers specified in different ways, as shown in Table 1. The system will use printer number 1, if designated; if not, the system will use printer number 2; and so on.

Table 1. Default printers
Printer number	Printer designation	Specified by
1	The printer in the `dest` option of the lp shell command, or the printf() or fprintf() functions.	User or application programmer
2	The printer LPDEST environment variable	User or system programmer
3	The printer PRINTER environment variable	User or system programmer
4	The printer in the RACF® user profile. It is specified by the DEST parameter of the RACF ADDUSER or ALTUSER command.	Security administrator