User manual

Introduction

6 Manual Connection Service.fm

Illus. 2

Illus. 2 ThinPrint Engine sends print jobs using Connection Services (arrows show

directions of TCP communication)

Driver Free Printing and V-Layer

ThinPrint’s Driver Free Printing offers two main advantages:

• No (native) printer drivers have to be installed on the Windows application ser-

vers.

• Print jobs can be compressed much more than when printing with native printer

drivers.

Driver Free Printing requires that all participating computers (application servers,

central and local print servers) have Windows as operating system.

Only on the client side can other operating systems be used: for print servers, print

server devices, or appliances with non-Windows operating systems, V-Layer can be

avoided. All necessary native printer drivers are installed on the central print server.

Driver Free Printing and V-Layer can be used simultaneously: mixed environments are

therefore not a problem (see also Page 10

Examples of print server devices and appliances that are suitable for use as Thin-

Print.

Connection Service is supported by ThinPrint Gateway TPG-25/65 and the Spool

Server ISD300/4x0 by SEH (see also Page 24