NetWare 4.1/9000 Print Services

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Planning Your Printing Environment
Understanding Network Printing
While only one print server can run on a server at a given time, that single
print server can service up to 255 printers. Performance factors, however,
may limit the number of printers that one print server can service effectively.
Network Printing Examples
The examples in this section illustrate how the three printing objects (print
queue, printer, and print server) can be arranged as you require. It also
demonstrates how the NetWare printing processes interact with the NetWare
print objects and the HP-UX print service.
Simple Printing Setup
In this setup, a UNIX lp system printer is cabled to the printer port of a
NetWare Services server running the PSERVER daemon. NetWare clients
can select a printer by name or they can specify a print queue when sending
print jobs to the network printer. The PSERVER daemon sends the print job
from the queue to the network printer. HP-UX clients can still access the
same network printer through the UNIX lp system.
Figure 1-2 Simple Printing Setup