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Assessing Your Current Printing Environment

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Establishing your planning base consists of the following tasks:
"Assessing Your Current Printing Environment" on page 36
"Identifying Critical Planning Issues" on page 37
"Designing Your New System" on page 39
Beginning with NetWare
system while still offering compatibility with Novell's legacy, queue-based
print system. Because both printing systems are supported, your users can
continue printing as they always have until you complete the transition to
NDPS.
For information about the differences between queue-based print services and
NDPS, see Chapter 1, "Understanding Novell Distributed Print Services," on
page 13.
Your first planning task should be to determine what kind of printing system
you currently have. You can then begin narrowing down your options for how
to proceed. In nearly all cases, your system will consist of one or more of the
following:
NetWare Legacy (Queue-Based) Printing System—If your current
printing solution is based on the NetWare legacy, queue-based system,
you will find information on upgrading to NDPS in
Queue-Based Printing to NDPS" on page
NetWare 3.x Printing System—If you currently have a NetWare 3.1x
server bindery and file system and you are using a relatively small
number of printers, you should consider implementing your NDPS
system from scratch and then deleting all of your legacy printing objects.
However if your system is large and you do not want to create your NDPS
printing system from scratch, you can implement an NDPS printing
system on your network using the process described in
Queue-Based Printing to NDPS" on page
NetWare for UNIX or NFS Printing SystemSeveral scenarios can be
used to incorporate NDPS into environments that use NFS* Print
Services:
"NetWare-to-UNIX Printing" on page 54
"UNIX-to-NetWare Printing" on page 55
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