Direct Socket Printing - Printronix PrintNet P8000 Line User Manual

Chapter 5
Solaris 2.6 – 7 PrintNet Setup

Direct Socket Printing

Within TCP/IP environments, there are some setups which require
the host to print directly to a TCP port number on the PrintNet,
bypassing all of the higher level destination/queue names. If you
run into a setup which requires this, you will need to define two
parameters for a new print setup:
1. PrintNet IP address. The IP address or host name of the print
server to which you want to print.
2. PrintNet TCP port number. A predefined number for the I/O
port on the print server. 9100 is the default port number.
Though the host will be sending directly to a TCP port number on
the PrintNet, the port numbers are still mapped to destinations/
queues in case there is some type of special processing or logging
to be done to the job. However, the destination name is of no
concern in this type of printer definition. Only the two parameters
mentioned above need to be defined for printing to work.
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