Print Server (Pserver - Xerox DocuPrint 100 Installation Planning Manual

Print server (PSERVER)

Installation Planning Guide
• 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 DocuPrint NPS/IPS starts
to receive it. If the user has deleted the job after DocuPrint NPS/
IPS begins to receive it, DocuPrint 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, DocuPrint 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
DocuPrint 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.
Print queue
on hard disk
Client workstations
sending print jobs
to print queue
File server
Print server
software
Printer
Printer
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