User Guide

26 Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
103-000137-001
August 31, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
developed to interact with specific proprietary printers, they can provide a
wider array of information and offer options that are not available for the
generic Novell gateway. Some third-party gateways provide utilities that can
be configured to automatically create Printer Agents when one of their printers
is attached to the network.
For more information, see Chapter 9, “Selecting the Correct Gateway to Use,”
on page 135.
The Novell gateway (illustrated below) supports LPR/LPD and IPP printing,
local and remote printers, including those using NPRINTER or queue-based
technology as well as those configured with RP mode enabled in IPX
environments or LPR mode enabled in TCP/IP environments.
The Novell gateway is designed to be used with printers that don't have an
embedded Printer Agent and don't yet have a proprietary, third-party gateway
provided for them by their manufacturers.
RP printers are those that support Novell's legacy Remote Printer protocol. It
is supported by many network-attached printers. LPR is a UNIX*-based
printing protocol used by network-attached printers in TCP/IP environments
to service jobs submitted to print queues.
For information about other major NDPS components, see the following:
 “Understanding Printer Agents” on page 22
 “Understanding the NDPS Manager” on page 24
 “Understanding the Broker” on page 27
Novell Gateway
Printer
Agent
Local printer
attached to
server
NDPS
server
NPRINTER
attached to
workstation o
r
remote server
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