Unix Printing - Hitachi Koki DDC 35n User Manual

6.2 UNIX Printing

6.2 UNIX Printing
Note
• This manual cover general settings only. See your UNIX system man-
ual for full details about setting procedures.
The NIC can support UNIX TCP/IP printing in two modes:
• Host-based lpd where a supplied line printer daemon is running on
one or more workstations and print data is communicated to the
NIC via a TCP/IP port or,
• Printer-based lpd where the printer appears as a host running a line
printer daemon.
In general, printer-based lpd is easiest to use on BSD UNIX systems,
requiring an entry in the printcap file once the NIC 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. For many operating systems, you have the option of
using host-resident printing or print server-resident printing. Each
mode has certain advantages.
• The host-resident method can print the username and filename on
its banner page; the print server-resident method prints a banner
page with the host's name.
• The print server-resident method requires you to configure the
printer only one time, when you install the print server. The host-
resident method requires that a printing daemon be installed on
every host that you want to be able to print jobs.
Note
• The NIC will also operate with other host-resident print supervisor/
spooler programs that present a print image to the printer over a TCP/
IP port. The base TCP/IP port number can be changed via Telnet, or the
NIC HTML setup pages accessed by MAP or a Web Browser. Remem-
ber, the actual port is always one higher than the base port number. The
status report
indicates the actual port number.
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