About This Manual - Epson RIP Station 5100 Administrator's Manual

Introduction
xi About this manual
This manual is intended for anyone who is responsible for integrating the RIP Station
5100 Series II ™ into a business environment that includes networked personal
computers. Typically, this person is a designated network administrator, although some
user sites might not have a network specialist. To make the information in this manual
available to the broadest possible audience, this manual provides some introductory
material and points out topics for which the services of a network administrator are
recommended.
After the RIP Station and client workstations are set up, as described in this manual
and in the Setup Guide, individual users can print to the RIP Station as a
high-performance color PostScript printer.
The term "RIP Station" is used in this manual to refer to the RIP Station 5100
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Series II.
The RIP Station supports the Stylus Pro 9000 and Stylus Pro 7000 printers. Any
connectivity or administrative features specific to the printer are described in the Setup
Guide, the User Guide, or the Release Notes.

About this manual

This manual covers the following topics:
• Basic configuration of the RIP Station to support printing over AppleTalk,
TCP/IP, and IPX (Novell) networks
• Setting up a parallel port connection
• Configuring Novell and Windows NT 4.0 servers and UNIX systems to provide
RIP Station printing services
• Administering network printing
• Using the RIP Station in mixed network environments
The network guidelines in this book are not intended to replace the services of
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an experienced network engineer.