Rip Station Print Connections; Direct Connection; Queues - Epson RIP Station 5100 Administrator's Manual

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3-32 Performing Setup from the Control Panel

RIP Station print connections

In RIP Station Printer Setup you decide how the RIP Station manages print jobs by
deciding which print connections should be "published" to users over the network. All
published connections are constantly checked for the presence of jobs. If you don't
want users to print to a connection, don't publish it.
You can publish two types of connections on the RIP Station: the Direct connection
and queues (Print queue and Hold queue). At least one connection to the RIP Station
must be published.

Direct connection

Jobs are transmitted to the RIP Station Direct connection only when the RIP Station
is ready to print. They remain at the sending workstation until the RIP Station is
ready, and are processed as soon as a prior job is finished, before the next queued job is
processed.
Jobs sent to the Direct connection are not stored on the RIP Station hard disk. The
jobs appear in the display of current jobs in the job management tools, but they cannot
be selected for reprinting, moving, or deletion. Therefore the Direct connection
provides a measure of security for sensitive files. If you plan to download fonts to the
RIP Station via the network, you must publish the Direct connection.
You cannot use the Direct connection for lpd printing over TCP/IP. You can,
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however, use the Direct connection for downloading fonts.

Queues

A queue is a storage area for print jobs. Queues are particularly useful when many
print jobs are being sent to the RIP Station. When a job is printed to a queue on the
RIP Station, it is stored on the RIP Station hard disk rather than the user's hard disk,
quickly freeing up the user's workstation.
Users can print only to published connections. However, job storage areas for all
queues exist on the server, so that administrators or other users of the job management
tools can move or copy jobs to the Print or Hold queue, whether or not these queues
are published.