Remote Printer (Rprinter - Xerox 4850 Installation Planning Manual

DocuPrint NPS/IPS on a Novell network

Remote printer (RPRINTER)

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• The Novell system administrator must create form names to
match the names of DocuPrint NPS/IPS virtual printers.
• The form name can have a maximum of twelve characters,
and the first character must be alphabetic.
If a form name is not used, a virtual printer with the same name
as the queue is used.
Forms are defined on the Novell server using the Novell
PRINTDEF program. (Use a prefix such as "DP" to distinguish
them from other form names.)
NOTE: DocuPrint NPS/IPS is not using a form in the Novell
sense. It reads the name field of the form specified, and
interprets it as a DocuPrint virtual printer. None of the form
attributes other than name is read.
A Novell remote printer workstation (DocuPrint NPS/IPS Printer
Controller) is a vehicle for the print server to move print data to a
printer that is not directly connected to the print server. The
remote printer software runs on a workstation that connects to a
remote printer through a parallel or serial port.
The remote printer software communicates with a print server
running print server software. The print server services jobs from
the print queue and sends the data over the network through a
SPX connection to the RPRINTER. The RPRINTERSs are
associated with DocuPrint NPS/IPS virtual printers. There can
be up to sixteen RPRINTERs on the Novell file server. The
RPRINTER does not have access to the queue or the data for a
job in the queue. The RPRINTER configuration allows for
multiple queues to provide access to the attributes of the
associated virtual printers.
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