HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

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Introducing HP Distributed Print Service

HPDPS Architecture

Some of the components, or objects, that make up an HPDPS

environment are shown in Figure 1-2, “Major HPDPS Objects,”. See

“What Are Objects and Attributes?” shortly for more information on

objects.

Figure 1-2 Major HPDPS Objects

The ﬁgure shows an HPDPS spooler server and a supervisor server. The

servers contain the major objects involved with printing: jobs,

documents, logical printers, physical printers, and queues. Each of these

objects is described below.

What is an HPDPS Physical Printer?

Within HPDPS, the printer device is the actual printer hardware while

the term physical printer refers to the HPDPS software representation

of the printer device.

You conﬁgure the attributes of the physical printer so that it reﬂects the

features, functions and capabilities of the printer device. See “Creating

and Conﬁguring Physical Printers” in Chapter 5 for information on

physical printer conﬁguration tasks.