HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 3 63
Planning Your HPDPS Configuration
Selecting Logical Configuration Models
The advantages and disadvantages of the desktop configuration model
are:
Advantages:
• Matches a traditional workstation printer configuration for an
individual or for a small group.
• Users have no uncertainty as to where their jobs will print.
• Allows you to specify different defaulting for each physical printer.
• Provides good security and control of printing activities.
Disadvantages:
• No printer workload balancing.
• You must create and manage more HPDPS objects; greater
complexity.
• All jobs sent to a logical printer must have similar characteristics.
Based on the job, HPDPS might reject it, requiring your users to
submit their jobs to a different logical printer.
The desktop configuration model is easy to understand because of the
one-to-one relationship between a logical and physical printer. However,
if workload balancing and ease of management are important
considerations within a larger print environment, you might want to
implement one of the other configuration models.
The Printer Pool Configuration Model
A printer pool configuration model has a one-to-many relationship
between a logical printer and its associated physical printers. The
primary consideration for a printer pool configuration is whether you
have printer devices that make sense to group together. For example, the
printer pool configuration is appropriate for printer devices that are
located near one another, such as in a print room. Printing occurs at the
same location, providing a central point where users pick up their jobs or
from where you can distribute jobs. You can also group printer devices
together based on other considerations:
• printers with similar capabilities, such as a group of high-speed
production printers.
• printers that support a particular user group.