Deleting a Printer

These procedures let you delete printer definitions. Use these procedures to remove the printer definitions for printers that you no longer use. Removing unneeded printers can help you avoid exceeding the maximum number of printer definitions, as defined by the mPrinters parameter in the Environment configuration file (univ.cfg). See Setting the Maximum for Printer Definitions.

When you delete a printer definition, the printer will also be removed from any printer groups it belongs to.

To delete a printer

Access the Printer Definition utility.
1. In a Lawson Interface Desktop (LID) session, use Form Transfer (F8).
2. In the Form ID field on the Form Transfer form, type prtdef and click the OK button or press Enter.
On the Printer Definition form, select the printer to delete.
Press Delete (F9).
In the following cases, the system will prompt you for a replacement printer when you attempt to delete a printer definition:
- The printer is assigned as a user's default printer.
- The printer belongs to a distribution group.
- The printer belongs to a distribution list group (because it belongs to a distribution group that belongs to the distribution list group).
- The printer is assigned to a print file in the Report/Output Files subform (accessed through the Reports button on a parameter form).
- The printer is assigned to a job step.
  
  The replacement printer must be a valid printer set up through the Printer Definition utility (except that in the case of printers assigned to job steps, the system does not check the validity of the replacement printer).
  
  If you use Mark and Bound to delete a number of printers, a replacement printer must be designated for each printer, if each is in use.
Press Enter twice.

Access to the printer is removed from the printer groups to which it was assigned.

Note: If a printer group is empty after deleting a printer, you should delete the printer group to prevent assigning an empty printer group to a user.