User Guide

Selecting the Correct Gateway to Use 135
Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
103-000137-001
August 31, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
9 Selecting the Correct Gateway to Use
Gateways allow Novell
®
Distributed Print Services
TM
(NDPS
®
) clients to
send jobs to printers that are not NDPS-aware (that is, printers that are not
equipped with embedded NDPS Printer Agents). You select and configure a
printer gateway when you create a new Printer Agent.
Gateways translate NDPS queries or commands to printer-specific language
that the physical printer can use. This is possible because gateways are
configured to know the specific type (make and model) of printer being used.
The following diagram illustrates a typical gateway configuration.
Third-party gateways are developed by printer manufacturers to support
printers directly attached to the network. Because they are developed to
interact with specific proprietary printers, 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.
Gateway
Third-party gateway
Printer
Agent
NDPS
client
Existing
printer
NDPS
server
GW
PA