Using remote printing

z/OS® Communications Server provides client and server support for remote printing. The remote printing application enables you to spool data sets remotely to a Line Printer Daemon (LPD). The Line Printer Requester (LPR) sends the spooled data set to a specified print server host and to a specified printer.

This topic describes the remote printing commands listed in Table 1.

Note: Although this information describes the commands and parameters that are valid for the MVS™ LPR client, you might not get the same results from non-MVS servers, because those servers might not support the same commands and parameters.

Table 1. Remote printing commands
Command	Description	See
LPQ	Request a list of the printer queue on a remote printer.	LPQ command—Request a list of the printer queue on a remote printer
LPR	Print to a remote printer.	LPR command—Print to a remote printer
LPRM	Remove a job from the printer queue on a remote host.	LPRM command—Remove a job from the printer queue on a remote host
LPRSET	Set the default printer and host name.	LPRSET command—Set the default printer and host name
TSO SMSG	Monitor the Status of LPD	TSO SMSG command—Monitoring the Status of LPD