Serverless Printing - Konica Minolta magicolor 2350 Reference Manual

Serverless Printing

The illustration shows a simpli-
fied section of a typical net-
work environment. A
workstation (WS1) generates
print data from a software
application and transmits it via
the network to the network
server. The network server
stores the data on its hard disk
(in what is called a print
queue). After the data trans-
mission is completed, the net-
work server sends the print job
to the printer via the same net-
work.
This method has two major
disadvantages:
1
The print data is sent two
times across the network, increasing the network traffic.
2
It also takes much longer to print from the time the workstation sends the
data until the print job is completely printed.
Not only do you have to wait a relatively long time before the printer starts to
process the job, but all other users on the network experience a slower
response time as well.
KONICA MINOLTA technology
offers a better solution:
Workstations send the print data
directly to the printer, omitting
the network server routing.
All KONICA MINOLTA
printers can print through
a print queue on a net-
work server if you need to
use that method.
Your KONICA MINOLTA printer
behaves like a network server
when connected to a network,
decreasing unnecessary network
traffic.
192—Chapter 5.2 Serverless Printing