Queue-based printing methods – Philips AXIS 5900 User Manual

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Adding Printers in NetWare

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AXIS 5900 User’s Manual

4. Use the NetWare Administrator to create the printer, print server and queue

objects in the NDS tree and then link them together. The

Print Services

Quick Setup (Non-NDPS) utility can be used for this. Go to Tools in the

NetWare Administrator.

5. Use the Add Printer Wizard on your work station to install the printer on

your client. Note that only NDS queue based PSERVER printing is supported.
When installing, choose

Network Printer and browse to the queue you have

just created. Alternatively, choose

Local Printer and select the queue you

have just captured.

Any configuration and management of the Axis Network Print Server can

be performed from any standard Web browser. Please refer to “Using a

Web Browser for Print Server Management” on page 92.

If both the IPX and IP protocols are enabled in your network and the print

server uses DUAL_STACK (enabled by default) as its network transport

protocol, then IPX will be chosen. To force the print server to use the IP

transport protocol, go to your print server’s Web interface and choose

Admin | Detailed View | NetWare and change the NetWare Transport

Protocol from DUAL_STACK to IP_ONLY. Save and exit when finished.

Note:

Queue-based Printing

Methods

The following overview explains the advantages and limitations of the

two supported queue-based printing methods.

Print Server Mode

The Axis Network Print Server logs in to a file server(s) and repeatedly

polls the print queues for print jobs. In this fashion, the Axis Network

Print Server emulates a NetWare print server, which is a workstation

running PSERVER. It provides high printing speed with low network load

and is the recommended mode for medium to large sized networks. Each

print server in PSERVER mode takes one NetWare user licence.

Advantages

High performance: up to 1 Mbyte/s

Limitations

In bindery mode, this printing method requires a NetWare user licence
for each Axis Network Print Server to file server link.

Remote Printer Mode

The Axis Network Print Server acts as Remote Printer for PSERVER.NLM

running on the NetWare file server, or to a dedicated workstation running

PSERVER.EXE. In this fashion, the Axis Network Print Server emulates a

workstation running the NetWare remote printer software RPRINTER, or

NPRINTER. This mode is only recommended for small networks where the

number of NetWare user licences is a major issue.

Advantages

NetWare user licences are not required.

Pure IP requires that you run NetWare 5 or higher.

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