Mvs Download, Dpf, Or A Combination Of Pc-Based Applications And Host Systems; Mvs Download, Dpf, Or A Combination Of - Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP Manual

For example, an advertising firm is installing InfoPrint Manager for Windows to
manage printing for its 1,200 employees. The company has 450 PCL and
PostScript
printers that are more than seven years old. They have recently purchased 5 PCL
printers that are also enabled to use the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP). Most of
the print jobs that users generate are from word processing, graphics, or desktop
publishing programs. These applications create mostly PCL and PostScript print
jobs, which do not need to be transformed to another data stream to be printed on
the existing printers.
The print administrator decides to create three kinds of actual destinations.
v Passthrough printers will send jobs to the PostScript and PCL printers.
v IPP printers will send jobs to the new IPP-enabled printers.
v BSD printers will send jobs to the oldest of the printers (the ones that still
MVS Download, DPF, or a combination of PC-based applications and
host systems
If you will be sending jobs to this destination from both PC-based applications and
host systems (using DPF or MVS Download), use this table to see which type of
destination fits your needs.
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InfoPrint Manager for Windows: Procedures
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printers that are between one and seven years old, and about 20
receive jobs using the lpr command).
Table 2. MVS Download, DPF, or a combination of PC-based applications and host systems
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If the data AFP , ASCII, DBCS ASCII, line
stream that your data, PCL, PostScript, PDF, IPDS
host system and (via DPF)
applications
send to
InfoPrint
Manager is:
and the data IPDS
stream that you
send to this
printer is:
Create this type PSF (TCP/IP)
of actual
destination:
Note:
1. DPF can only submit jobs to PSF printers. MVS Download can submit jobs to any of
the printer types listed.
2. You can only print PPDS on a non-Windows system, for example, by sending the PPDS
data stream to an AIX system
1
2
PCL or PPDS
PSF (other driver
or command)
PCL only PS only
PCL PS
PSF (other driver One of the
or command) destination types
OR any of the listed under
destination types PC-based
listed under applications
PC-based
applications