Unix Printing Through Tcp/Ip - Konica Minolta bizhub PRO 950 User Manual

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UNIX Printing through TCP/IP

This section explains how to configure the network interface card and your
network for use with TCP/IP communication in various UNIX environments.
Independent setup and installation procedures are provided for most popu-
lar UNIX systems.
The TCP/IP capability of the network interface card will also operate with lpr
spoolers on other systems, and with spooler/supervisor capabilities that
communicate raw print jobs to the TCP/IP port of the network interface card.
This port number is 10001.
Note
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol for network
management services. SNMP is supported for Management Information
Base (MIB) II over the IP for the network interface card. This support al-
lows you to query MIB II to get system information about the network in-
terface card.
The network interface card 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 network interface
card via a TCP/IP port.
- Printer-based lpd where the image controller appears as a host running
a line printer daemon.
Many operating systems provide the option of using host-resident printing or
printer-resident printing.
In general, printer-based lpd is easier to use on BSD UNIX systems. This re-
quires an entry in the printcap file once the network interface card 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 printer-resident method prints a banner page
with the host's name.
- The printer-resident method requires you to configure the image control-
ler and the network interface card only one time, when you install the net-
work interface card; whereas, the host-resident method requires that a
printing daemon be installed on every host that you want to be able to
print jobs.
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