NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Planning Your Printing Environment
Understanding Network Printing
Understanding Network Printing
The key benefit of network printing is that it allows many users, working on
diverse platforms, to share expensive print resources.
In a local printing environment, a user can only print to a printer cabled
directly to one of the printer ports on the user’s workstation. However, in a
network printing environment, printers can be conveniently located
anywhere on the network and shared by all network users.
NetWare Services for HP-UX adds the robust network print services of
NetWare to the existing set of HP-UX print services, providing greater
integration between the NetWare and HP-UX network printing
environments.
Overview of NetWare Services Printing
The printing capabilities of NetWare Services allow you to share print
resources among NetWare clients, including DOS and Windows clients.
Implemented on the HP-UX platform and integrated with the UNIX lp
system, these print services provide nearly the same level of printing
functionality found in the native NetWare printing environment. (NetWare
Services supports AppleTalk network printers but does not provide the
underlying protocol stacks necessary for AppleTalk printing.)
NetWare Services provides the connectivity between NetWare clients and
network printers through a series of steps.
1 A user sends a print job from an application on a NetWare workstation.
When a user sends a print job from an application on a NetWare client
workstation, the application compiles the data entered by the user and passes it
on to a print driver. The print driver generates the data and sends it along to
default printer port on the workstation.
2 The print job travels from the NetWare workstation to the NetWare Services
server.
The print job travels across the network and arrives at the NetWare Services
server, where it is stored as a file in a designated NetWare directory. This
directory is called a print queue. Print queues are assigned to network printers.