Printing Overview - Kyocera Ai5555 Instruction Handbook Manual

UNIX Printing Through TCP/IP

Printing Overview

The NC-2 Print Server can support UNIX TCP/IP printing in two modes:
• Host-based where a supplied line printer daemon is run on one or
more workstations and print data is communicated to the NC-2
Print Server via a TCP/IP port
or
• Printer-based lpd where the printer appears as a host running a line
printer daemon.
Many operating systems provide the option of using host-resident printing
or print server-resident printing.
In general, printer-based lpd is easier to use on BSD UNIX systems. This
requires an entry in the printcap file once the NC-2 Print Server has its IP
information. Some UNIX System V systems have restrictions on support of
remote lpd printers, requiring that the host-based lpd approach be used.
Each printing mode has certain advantages over the other mode, as follows:
• The host-resident method can print the username and filename on
its banner page; whereas the print server-resident method prints a
banner page with the host's name.
• The print server-resident method requires you to configure the
printer only one time, when you install the print server.; whereas,
the host-resident method requires that a printing daemon be
installed on every host that you want to be able to print jobs.
NOTE: The NC-2 Print Server will also operate with other host-resident print supervisor/
spooler programs that present a print image to the printer over a TCP/IP port.
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