Understanding Your Implementation Options; Using Legacy Printers And Ndps Gateways - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Understanding Your Implementation Options

Using Legacy Printers and NDPS Gateways

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Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
Possible scenarios for printing with NetWare range from maintaining a legacy
queue-based system (available only for IPX-based systems), to integrating
NDPS into a heterogeneous print system, to implementing a pure NDPS
printing system in a Pure IP environment. A wide range of heterogeneous
configurations exist between all IPX and Pure IP systems, and between all-
queue-based and all-NDPS systems. However, becoming one hundred percent
Pure IP and utilizing the most advanced printing features of NetWare implies
full deployment of NDPS.
Keep in mind that there is no requirement to modify current NetWare printing
configurations immediately, and any modifications you make may be
implemented gradually (see
Your available implementation options are described in the following
sections:
"Using Legacy Printers and NDPS Gateways" on page 44
"Using Printers with Embedded NDPS Technology" on page 47
Gateways allow NDPS clients to send jobs to printers that are not NDPS-
aware (that is, printers that are not equipped with embedded NDPS Printer
Agents). You select and configure a printer gateway when you create a new
Printer Agent.
Gateways translate NDPS queries or commands to printer-specific language
that the physical printer can use. This is possible because gateways are
configured to know the specific type (make and model) of printer being used.
You can implement NDPS through two types of gateways: third-party
gateways and the generic Novell gateway. Each type of implementation is
described here.
"Making the Transition Gradually" on page 41).