HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

60 Chapter3

Planning Your HPDPS Conﬁguration

Planning Your Logical Conﬁguration

Once you have installed the basic HPDPS components in your network,

you will want to create a logical conﬁguration based on your printing

needs. By this, we mean setting values for the different HPDPS

attributes relating to the basic HPDPS components. The basic HPDPS

objects that you conﬁgure are the spooler, the logical printer, the queue,

the supervisor, and the physical printer. You can also conﬁgure

initial-value-document objects and initial-value-job objects. The

functions of the different objects will help you determine how to

conﬁgure your system. As your printing needs change, you can change

your conﬁguration to ﬁt these needs.

Spooler Considerations

The HPDPS spooler contains the logical printers and queues for your

distributed print environment. Most of your spooler conﬁguration

activities will be at the logical printer and queue level; the spooler itself

has very few conﬁgurable attributes. The only requirements for the

spooler are determining on which system the spooler will run and

assigning a name to the spooler.

Logical Printer Considerations

The HPDPS logical printer is the object to which users submit jobs. You

control the use of the features of the physical printers through the

attribute values you specify for the logical printer. You can also restrict

which users can submit jobs to a speciﬁc logical printer through DCE.

When you create and conﬁgure a logical printer, you specify a name for

the logical printer and the name of the queue to which the logical printer

sends jobs.

Queue Considerations

The queue receives jobs from a logical printer and holds the jobs until a

physical printer associated with the queue is available to process the job.

The scheduling method for the queue determines the order in which jobs

are sent to physical printers. One or more logical printers sends jobs to a

queue, and one or more physical printers receives jobs from a queue. The

primary attributes you conﬁgure for queues help you manage backlogs of