Printing Through The Novell Gateway - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Printing through the Novell Gateway

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Novell Distributed Print Services Administration Guide
Advantages of Printing through a Third-
Party Gateway
Feedback and control as good as the
protocols used by the gateway
Simple administration
For legacy and specialized printers that are not supported by third-party
gateways, NetWare includes a generic Novell gateway that allows the NDPS
Manager to communicate with print devices using the LPR/LPD protocol on
IP, the Internet Printing Protocol, and the RP protocol on IPX.
NDPS Manager
Novell
Printer
client
Agent
Using the Novell gateway, jobs can also be written to a queue as a way to route
them to a different print system or to network printers set up in QServer mode.
Advantages of Printing through the
Novell Gateway
Support for Pure IP via LPR as well as
support for IPX
Feedback and control as good as the
protocol employed
Disadvantages of Printing through a
Third-Party Gateway
PA
Novell
gateway
Printer
Disadvantages of Printing through the
Novell Gateway
Some manual configuration required
during the creation of the Printer
Agent
Typically less printer information
available than with third-party
gateways