Printing Through Third-Party Gateways - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Printing through Third-party Gateways

A third-party gateway is designed specifically for a printer or printer family.
NDPS Manager
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Novell
3rd-
client
party
gateway
This scenario requires two components running on a NetWare server: the
NDPS Manager and the third-party gateway. The NDPS Manager is an
integral part of NDPS and implements a platform on which to run Printer
Agents. The third-party gateway is provided by the printer manufacturer for a
specific printer or class of printers.
Printer Agents (unless embedded in the printer itself) are created to run on the
NDPS Manager to front-end printers which do not contain NDPS capabilities
and make them appear to users and administrators as full NDPS printers. The
NDPS Manager uses NDPS to communicate with users and administrators on
one end, but requires a gateway to communicate with the printer on the other.
Some printer manufacturers have developed proprietary mechanisms for
dynamically discovering their printers and for providing comprehensive
access to their printers' capabilities. Gateways developed by these printer
manufacturers can be snapped in to the NDPS Manager to give NDPS
administrators and users enhanced access to the printers.
Different levels of NDPS functionality are available depending on the actual
implementation of a specific gateway and the capabilities of the protocols
used by the gateway.
Advantages of Printing through a Third-
Party Gateway
Might support Pure IP
Might provide pseudo plug-and-print
capabilities
Planning the Migration to Novell Distributed Print Services
Printer
Agent
Printer
Disadvantages of Printing through a
Third-Party Gateway
Currently not all existing printers have
third-party gateways
Some manual configuration might be
required
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