HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

66 Chapter3
Planning Your HPDPS Configuration
Selecting Logical Configuration Models
• Allows you to specify different defaulting for each logical printer. Your
users can submit a variety of job types.
• Allows you to control the access to both the physical printer and its
features.
Disadvantages:
• There is no printer workload balancing.
• Complexity; you must create and manage more HPDPS objects as
compared to the desktop configuration model.
• Limited by the capability of the physical printer. Based on the job,
HPDPS might reject it causing your users to submit the job to a
logical printer outside of the funnel configuration model.
The funnel configuration model shares with the desktop model the
advantage of letting your users know exactly where their jobs will print.
The added advantage is the flexibility of multiple logical printers with
different sets of default values for jobs. For example, one logical printer
might default attributes for double-sided printing jobs and another
logical printer might default attributes for single-sided jobs.
The Hourglass Configuration Model
The hourglass configuration model has a many-to-many relationship
between logical printers and physical printers. This model combines the
printer workload balancing benefits of the printer pool model with the
flexible job and document defaulting benefits provided by the funnel
model. Figure 3-4, “Hourglass Configuration Model,” shows the
hourglass configuration model.