Unix Printing Through Tcp/Ip - Oce VarioPrint 1105 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
popular 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 9100.
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
allows you to query MIB II to get system information about the network
interface 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 print 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
requires 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 print controller
and the network interface card only one time, when you install the
network 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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