HP Distributed Print Service Administration Guide

Chapter 3 67
Planning Your HPDPS Configuration
Selecting Logical Configuration Models
Figure 3-4 Hourglass Configuration Model
The advantages and disadvantages of the hourglass configuration model
are:
Advantages:
• Allows HPDPS to balance your printer workload.
• Convenient for printer devices that are in close proximity to one
another.
• Convenient for printer devices with similar functions and
capabilities.
• Allows you to specify different defaulting for each logical printer.
• Provides good security and control of the printing activities in your
print environment.
Disadvantages:
• Complexity; you must create and manage more HPDPS objects as
compared to the desktop configuration model.
• Users do not know where their jobs will print until they receive
notification that the jobs have printed.
The hourglass configuration model is the most flexible HPDPS
configuration. The control you have of the print environment balances
the complexity of the configuration.