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Planning an Installation
A successful Advanced Printing Software installation requires careful
planning. You should consider the following questions before you create
a print system:
• What computers will host the server components?
• What computers will host the client components?
• Who are the users, operators, and administrators?
• What name services should be used?
• How will logical printers map to physical printers?
• What job and document defaults do you need?
This chapter will help you answer these questions. The chapter provides
only overview information. It does not provide details on the commands to
install the software or create objects. Detailed information on object creation
is provided in subsequent chapters of this guide and the
Advanced Printing
Software Installation Guide describes how to install the software.
2.1 Setting Up Software Components
There are many ways to set up the print system software components.
This section helps you decide how and where to install client and server
components, how many servers to install, and how to ensure that all
components can communicate with one another efficiently.
2.1.1 Printer Configurations
You have a great deal of flexibility in the way you can configure servers,
printers, and queues in the system. You can run all print system components
on a single host, or you can distribute them to run on hosts that are
appropriate to their function. For example, you might choose to run server
processes on server hosts and print system clients on user workstations.
2.1.2 Multiple Server Hosts
Advanced Printing Software spoolers and supervisor can communicate with
one another, even when they are located on different hosts. You might choose
to run a supervisor on a host that is located near a set of direct-connected
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