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Issue:

Ioland for AIX - adding a printer

Solution:

Use smit to add a print queue to the associated ioland device:

# smit printer
  Print Spooling
    Add a Print Queue
       Attachment Type = File
          Select Printer type
          Name of exixting FILE in /dev directory = ioland device name
          Create queue names depending on the type

You can manage/monitor the queue from smit or from the command line:
# lpstat -p[name of queue]