Unix Printing Through Tcp/Ip - Konica Minolta bizhub pro 950 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 10001.
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 image 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 image 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.
Note
The network interface card will also operate with other host-resident print supervisor/spooler programs
that present a print image to the image controller over a TCP/IP port.
Printing overview
Considering both the host-based and printer-based TCP/IP printing capabilities, the network interface card
works with the following systems:
- All UNIX systems that support lpd
- System V Rel. 4 (on 386 platforms)
- Solaris:
– Version 1.1.3 (SunOS 4.1.3),
– Version 2.3 (SunOS 5.3),
– Version 2.4, and
– Version 2
- HP-UX Series 700 and 800 Version 9.01 and Version 10
- IBM AIX Version 3.2.5 and Version 4.0
- SCO UNIX Version 3.2
- AS400
Note
If the systems you are using do not run lpd, refer to "Installing UNIX TCP/IP programs".
The UNIX-TCP/IP Programs on accompanying CD-ROM also include source code so that you can
recompose host-based code for configuring on other System V platforms.
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