User Manual

System Overview Guide 4-1
4. Network printing environment
The NPS/IPS system supports the personal computer (PC), Sun
workstation, DEC workstation, HP/Apollo, IBM RS/6000 and
Apple Macintosh. It accepts PostScript levels 1 and 2, PCL 5,
TIFF, and ASCII output.
Client workstations and system software
To send print jobs to the printer, the customer needs to provide
the proper client hardware, operating system, and network
software.
Print data originates at the client workstation, mainframe or
minicomputer. This is where a user creates and formats
documents according to specifications with the help of
application software. The printer supports the following types of
networked client workstations and operating systems:
• Sun workstation running a Sun or Linux operating system
• PC running MS-DOS 6.2 and Microsoft Windows 3.1,
configured for the network environment
PC running Windows 95/98, configured for the network
environment
PC running Microsoft Windows NT or 2000, configured for the
network environment
• PC 386 or 486, running MS-DOS, version 6.2, with one of the
following TCP/IP packages:
– PathWay Access 3.1, Wollongong Integrated Networking/
Transmission Control Protocol (WIN/TCP) for DOS,
release 6.0
– FTP software, PC-TCP, release 3.0 or higher
– Sun Personal Computer–Network File Services (PC-
NFS), version 5.1
• IBM RS/6000 running IBM AIX, version 4.1
• HP/Apollo running HP-UX, version 10.01