Once you have installed the basic HPDPS components in your
network, you will want to create a logical configuration based on
your printing needs. By this, we mean setting values for the different
HPDPS attributes relating to the basic HPDPS components. The basic
HPDPS objects that you configure are the spooler, the logical printer,
the queue, the supervisor, and the physical printer. You can also
configure initial-value-document objects and initial-value-job objects.
The functions of the different objects will help you determine how
to configure your system. As your printing needs change, you can
change your configuration to fit these needs.
Spooler Considerations |
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The HPDPS spooler contains the logical printers and queues
for your distributed print environment. Most of your spooler configuration activities
will be at the logical printer and queue level; the spooler itself has
very few configurable attributes. The only requirements for the spooler
are determining on which system the spooler will run and assigning
a name to the spooler.
Logical Printer Considerations |
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The HPDPS logical printer is the object to which users submit
jobs. You control the use of the features of the physical printers
through the attribute values you specify for the logical printer.
You can also restrict which users can submit jobs to a specific
logical printer through DCE. When you create and configure a logical
printer, you specify a name for the logical printer and the name
of the queue to which the logical printer sends jobs.
Queue Considerations |
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The queue receives jobs from a logical printer and holds the
jobs until a physical printer associated with the queue is available
to process the job. The scheduling method for the queue determines
the order in which jobs are sent to physical printers. One or more
logical printers sends jobs to a queue, and one or more physical
printers receives jobs from a queue. The primary attributes you
configure for queues help you manage backlogs of jobs waiting in
the queue for scheduling. You can also specify who receives notification
regarding backlogged queues.
Supervisor Considerations |
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The supervisor contains physical printer objects. Most of
your configuration activities will be for the physical printer objects
contained in the supervisor. You will need to determine the system
on which the supervisor will run and to specify a name for the supervisor.
Note the guideline of configuring a separate supervisor for every
50 physical printers or less. You may configure multiple supervisors
on a single host.
Physical Printer Considerations |
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The HPDPS physical printer represents a printer device. The
physical printer capabilities are based on the printer
model. The attributes you can configure depend on the
capabilities of the printer model.
You can use physical printer attributes to represent how the
printer is currently configured for features that can be changed,
such as the media that are currently loaded or the restriction to
print only double-sided jobs.
HPDPS Gateway Printer Considerations |
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An HPDPS Gateway Printer is a logical
printer that allows you to send jobs between the Basic Environment
and the DCE Extended Environment and between hosts within the Basic
Environment.
An HPDPS Gateway Printer has two special attributes:
the name of the host you want to access
the name of the logical printer you want to access
on the remote host
Users specify the name of the HPDPS Gateway Printer and the
request is sent to the logical printer in the environment, or host,
that they want to access.
The HPDPS Gateway Printer is similar to a "remote printer"
provided by the LP spooler. Refer to “Configuring Logical Printers as HPDPS Gateway
Printers ” in Chapter
6 for information on setting up a HPDPS Gateway Printer.
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