Overview Of Spooler Fastp Network Print Processes - HP Spooler FASTP Manual

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Overview of Spooler FASTP Network
Print Processes
Instead of directing application output directly to a printer, the Spooler product allows
you to store the output as a disk file, then peruse or queue the output to be sent to a
designated printer when it becomes available for printing. Print processes retrieve the
output stored on disk by the Spooler collector and print it on a device. Each print
device in the Spooler subsystem has a print process associated with it. The print
process can be one of the following:

FASTP, which is the standard print process released with the Spooler product
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A user-written print process application
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A FASTP network print process, which provides the ability to use the Spooler
subsystem to print documents on a printer attached to a particular type of local
area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN)
To use the Spooler subsystem, the FASTP network print process and the printer device
must share a common communications protocol. These print processes have names of
the form FASTPxxx, where xxx is an acronym that identifies the communications
protocol shared by the process and device. For example, SMB LAN print servers are
supported only by FASTPSMB, NetWare LAN print servers are supported only by
FASTPNOV, and so forth. The Spooler supports the following FASTP network print
processes:
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FASTPTCP for TCP/IP LANs (T8932)

FASTSMB for SMB LANs (T9146)

FASTPNOV for Netware LANs (T8924)
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FASTPX25 for X.25 WANs (T8934)
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FASTPXNS for XNS LANs (T8931)
The remainder of this section includes an overview of the FASTP network print process
environment and its configuration, describes how a FASTP network print process
relates to the Spooler and IOP environments, and discusses FASTP network print
process support for printer-control operations, Spooler job and batch job
subcommands, the trace facility, and EMS messages.
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