Understanding Iprint - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

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Understanding iPrint

iPrint lets mobile employees, business partners, and customers access printers
from a variety of remote locations using existing Internet connections.
Whether users are located in an office building, telecommuting from home, or
attending a sales meeting in another country, iPrint ensures that they can print
documents quickly, easily, and reliably.
Using a Web browser, users point to a Web page that displays the available
printers. By clicking a printer, the iPrint client is installed (if not installed
previously), the printer's driver is downloaded, and a printer is created in the
user's Printer folder, enabling the user to print to the printer from any
application on his or her desktop.
iPrint uses the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), an industry standard, to
eliminate the complexities of printing over the Internet and to make location-
based printing a reality.
The benefits of IPP include the following:
Uses simple protocol
Provides broad vendor support
Works over local networks and the Internet
Provides for print data encryption (SSL, TLS)
Provides a standard print protocol for all platforms (Windows*,
Macintosh*, Linux*, UNIX*, etc.)
For more information about IPP, see the documents available at the
Working Group (http://www.pwg.org/ipp/index.html)
Printer
Web site.
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