Sharing The Communication Link With Ipds Printers; Sharing The Communication Link With Postscript, Pcl, Or Ppds Printers; Submitting Jobs To The Same Print Queue - Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP Planning Manual

Sharing the communication link with IPDS printers

Since only one print driver can have an open communication link with an IPDS
printer at a time, management of multiple print drivers is necessary. This can be
done in one of two ways:
v Manually start and stop the InfoPrint Manager actual destinations and Host PSF
v Configure the print drivers to wait for the printer to become available and to
The connection timer identifies how long to wait for the printer to become
available. The release or inactivity timer identifies how long the print driver
should maintain the communication link when it has no work to do. When a print
driver is actively feeding jobs to the printer, the print driver continues to do so as
long as the interval between job submissions is not longer than the specified
release or inactivity time. The print driver controls the printer until the flow of jobs
sufficiently slows. The release or inactivity time values make sure that the
destination is shared equally between the printer drivers, which is important. For
detailed information about setting these values in InfoPrint Manager, see "Sharing
actual destinations with a host" in InfoPrint Manager for AIX: Procedures.
You must configure the print drivers when one or more of these are configured to
drive the same printer:
v InfoPrint Manager actual destinations
v Host PSF printers
When you configure the print drivers, these conditions apply:
v There is no single point of control and auditing for all jobs printed. Multiple
v There is no automated job prioritization between jobs from different print
v Aside from the printer and network, there is not a single point of failure.
Sharing the communication link with PostScript, PCL, or
PPDS printers
When InfoPrint Manager sends PostScript, PCL, or PPDS to a printer, no
configuration is necessary to allow print sharing between:
v InfoPrint Manager actual destinations
v Windows workstations
v LPR clients submitting directly to the printer
Most printers will automatically print jobs in the order that the jobs are received.
Some configuration options might be available on some printers.

Submitting jobs to the same print queue

When you submit jobs to the same print queue, only one print driver
communicates with the printer. The print driver can either be an InfoPrint
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printers to control the print driver operating the printer
release the communication link when the print drivers have nothing to print.
interfaces must be used to determine all pending jobs for a printer.
drivers. Manual actions are required to force an active print driver to release the
printer to allow another waiting print driver to use it.