User Guide

46 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
Printing through the Novell Gateway
For legacy and specialized printers that are not supported by third-party
gateways, NetWare includes a generic Novell gateway that allows the NDPS
Manager to communicate with print devices using the LPR/LPD protocol on
IP, the Internet Printing Protocol, and the RP protocol on IPX.
Using the Novell gateway, jobs can also be written to a queue as a way to route
them to a different print system or to network printers set up in QServer mode.
Feedback and control as good as the
protocols used by the gateway
Simple administration
Advantages of Printing through the
Novell Gateway
Disadvantages of Printing through the
Novell Gateway
Support for Pure IP via LPR as well as
support for IPX
Some manual configuration required
during the creation of the Printer
Agent
Feedback and control as good as the
protocol employed
Typically less printer information
available than with third-party
gateways
Advantages of Printing through a Third-
Party Gateway
Disadvantages of Printing through a
Third-Party Gateway
Novell
client
Printer
NDPS Manager
Novell
gateway
PA
Printer
Agent