Print Server (Pserver - Xerox DocuColor 2060 Installation Planning Manual

Print server (PSERVER)

Installation Planning Guide
DocuColor 2060 NPS/IPS on a Novell network
You can perform the following tasks using PCONSOLE:
• Add or remove the following:
– Definitions of file servers serviced by the print server
– Definitions of print queues serviced by the print server
– Definitions of printers for a print server
– Print servers
– Users
– Jobs to and from a queue
– Queues
• View or change job information
• Check or change queue status.
A user or operator can change job values or delete a job while it
is still in the Novell queue, and before DocuColor 2060 NPS/IPS
starts to receive it. If the user has deleted the job after the
printing system begins to receive it, the system receives the
delete action and attempts to cancel the job. Cancellation may
fail and the job will partially or completely print.
A Novell print server (PSERVER) is a combination of hardware
and software that takes ready-to-print jobs from the print queue
and sends them to the printer. The print server software is the
link between the print queue and the printer (either local or
remote). Only one print server can be running on the file server.
Each print server can service up to 16 printers. A print server
can also run on a dedicated machine that is not running as a file
server.
NOTE: Although Novell PSERVER can support multiple queues
on multiple file servers, DocuColor 2060 NPS/IPS PSERVER
does not. It supports one queue on one file server only.
The print server software scans the print queues to which it is
assigned looking for jobs that are ready to print. When it obtains
a job from a queue, the print server sends the data to the
DocuColor 2060 NPS/IPS through an NCP/IPX connection.
Once the job is sent to the printer, the job is deleted from the
print queue, and the file removed from the queue directory.
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