Here is a little post to give a hint about setting up a printer on a Solaris 8 Workstation :
# lpadmin -p printerName -s printServer # lpadmin -p printerName -D "Printer description text" # lpadmin -d printerName # lpstat -p printerName
and then check you can print with :
# echo test | lp
Checkout this great Solaris 8 docs repository at Sun.com.