HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 3 61
Planning Your HPDPS Configuration
Planning Your Logical Configuration
jobs waiting in the queue for scheduling. You can also specify who
receives notification regarding backlogged queues.
Supervisor Considerations
The supervisor contains physical printer objects. Most of your
configuration activities will be for the physical printer objects contained
in the supervisor. You will need to determine the system on which the
supervisor will run and to specify a name for the supervisor. Note the
guideline of configuring a separate supervisor for every 50 physical
printers or less. You may configure multiple supervisors on a single host.
Physical Printer Considerations
The HPDPS physical printer represents a printer device. The physical
printer capabilities are based on the printer model. The attributes you
can configure depend on the capabilities of the printer model.
You can use physical printer attributes to represent how the printer is
currently configured for features that can be changed, such as the media
that are currently loaded or the restriction to print only double-sided
jobs.
HPDPS Gateway Printer Considerations
An HPDPS Gateway Printer is a logical printer that allows you to
send jobs between the Basic Environment and the DCE Extended
Environment and between hosts within the Basic Environment.
An HPDPS Gateway Printer has two special attributes:
• the name of the host you want to access
• the name of the logical printer you want to access on the remote host
Users specify the name of the HPDPS Gateway Printer and the request
is sent to the logical printer in the environment, or host, that they want
to access.
The HPDPS Gateway Printer is similar to a "remote printer" provided by
the LP spooler. Refer to “Configuring Logical Printers as HPDPS
Gateway Printers” in Chapter 6 for information on setting up a HPDPS
Gateway Printer.