HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide
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Introducing HP Distributed Print Service
Configuring HPDPS to Meet the Needs of Your Users
Figure 1-4, “Printer Pool,”, HPDPS allows you to associate several
physical printers with the same queue. Users specify the logical printer
supporting the pool of printers as the destination for a job. The first
physical printer that becomes available and that supports the job,
accepts the next job in the queue. This minimizes the time users wait for
their jobs to process and balances the printing workload on your system.
Figure 1-4 Printer Pool
You can also set up configurations so that you have many logical printers
associated with a single physical printer, which is called a “funnel”
configuration, or multiple logical printers associated with multiple
physical printers in an “hourglass” configuration. See “Selecting Logical
Configuration Models” in Chapter 3 for the different types of
configurations you can set up with HPDPS.
Providing Secured Access to Printer Devices
You might have some printer devices in a DCE Extended Environment to
which not all users require access. As shown in Figure 1-5, “Printer
Security,”, HPDPS uses the security services of DCE to allow you to
restrict access to printer devices. You restrict access to a physical printer
through the configuration of logical printers. You authorize access to
logical printers on a user-by-user basis or by DCE user groups.