NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Planning Your Printing Environment
Understanding Network Printing
3 The print queue temporarily stores the print job.
The print job resides as a file in the print queue until the network printer is ready.
Each network printer has a designated print server assigned to it. The print
server monitors the print queues and transfers pending print jobs from the
queues to the printer.
4 The print server transfers the print job to the network printer.
Network printers can be defined as local or remote and can be UNIX or NetWare
printers. A local printer is a printer attached directly to the NetWare Services
server; a remote printer is a printer attached to a UNIX or NetWare client
workstation on the network, or directly to the network itself.
Most network printers require a port driver to print network print jobs. NetWare
Services provides two types of port drivers: NPRINTER.EXE and the
NPRINTER daemon. Network printers attached to DOS, Windows, WIn 95 or
NT client workstations require NPRINTER.EXE running on the workstation.
Network printers attached to NetWare Services servers or UNIX servers require
the NPRINTER daemon running on the server.
The following figure illustrates these steps.
Figure 1-1 A typical path of a NetWare Services print job
For more information on PSERVER daemon, see “Using the PSERVER
Daemon” in Chapter 5. For more information on NPRINTER, see Chapter 6,
“Setting Up Printers Attached to Workstations or Servers.”