NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Setting Up and Servicing Print Servers

Print Server Features

The following list brieﬂy describes the key features of the print server

software available in NetWare Services.

• Support for 255 Printers

The print server in NetWare Services supports up to 255 printers. How

effectively it can support a large number of printers depends primarily on the

speed of your printers. The faster your printer, the greater the likelihood you will

notice that performance has been affected by a large number of printers. For

example, network-attached printers running in remote printer mode are usually

capable of high printing speeds if the print server is not heavily loaded.

• Configurable Queue Sampling Interval

In NetWare Services, the default queue sampling interval is 5 seconds. As long

as there are jobs in the queue, continual queries are made. This interval is

conﬁgurable for up to 255 seconds, but the lower default setting will increase

printer performance in most cases, especially when using a fast printer.

• Address Restrictions for Remote Printers

When you conﬁgure a print server, you have the option of putting an address

restriction specifying that a printer must run from a speciﬁed address (a node

address and network segment) in order to connect to the print server. If you

retain the unrestricted option (which is the default), the print server will allow

the remote printer to connect to it from any address.

• Support for PostScript Banner

You can conﬁgure a printer so that PostScript banners will be generated for that

printer. When using this option, you must be sure to select a banner type that

matches your default printer type.

• Auditing Log

The auditing log provides tighter security and billing information about all jobs

that have been printed. It can be read through PCONSOLE.

In designing the auditing log, Hewlett-Packard recognized that companies do

accounting in a variety of ways. For this reason, the auditing log provides a basic

default format based on ASCII and a ﬁxed record length. Both characteristics

are designed to make it as easy as possible to write a customized program to

retrieve the information it needs in a format determined by a particular company.