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Product Overview
In a typical network, general purpose servers manage both the printing tasks and the file/application
serving. The appliance handles the spooling and network traffic associated with printing, reducing the
workload on the general purpose server.
When printing takes place at remote offices or other locations distant from the servers, the speed of
printing can be degraded. A appliance installed in a remote office can dramatically increase printing
performance by eliminating the need for print requests to travel from the remote office to the central site
and back to a remote office printer.
An additional benefit is that if general purpose file/application servers go down, remote office users can
still print many jobs directly, using the appliance.
Operation and Management
Once the appliance is configured, virtually no management tasks are required. However, system
administrators can monitor print activity, manage the printers, or alter the configuration of the appliance
from anywhere on the network using the appliance's web-based graphical user interface and a supported
browser.
Product Description
The appliance contains a large disk drive for spooling print jobs from clients. Print jobs are stored on the
disk drive. The number of print jobs is only limited by the disk space available on the appliance.
The appliance provides web-accessible printer management and configuration and spools print jobs from
the following clients:
Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows NT
Microsoft Windows ME
UNIX
Following are some main features of the appliance:
Off-loads spooling from a UNIX or Windows NT server
Easy installation
Easy management
Can be managed from any supported web browser on the network
Virtually no management required once installed
Supports APC uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) (simple or basic signaling protocol)
Increases performance of general purpose servers
Easy replication of configuration and printer drivers across appliances
Reduces network traffic
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