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Lesson 8-Printing Over a Network
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Overview
 Understand network printing
concepts.
 Understand Windows network
printing.
 Understand NetWare network
printing.
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Understand Network Printing
Concepts
 The network should be configured for
sharing printers to enable network
printing.
 Local printer, shared printer, and
network printer are the three basic
printing configurations used while
designing a network and configuring
printers.
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Understand Network Printing
Concepts
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Basic printing configurations for networked computers
Understand Network Printing
Concepts
 Local print devices.
 Shared print devices.
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Local Print Devices
 A printer is referred to as the print device, and is used
for providing printed outputs.
 It is essential to install the necessary drivers to
ensure proper working of the print device.
 A software called printer is required to control the
printing process.
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Local Print Devices
 The printer determines where and
when the output should be sent.
 Local print devices provide the most
convenient way of printing from a
workstation computer.
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Local Print Devices
Add
Printer
Wizard
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Local Print Devices
Selecting
a Printer
port
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Local Print Devices
Installing
the
Printer
software
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Local Print Devices
Printer
Sharing
window
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Local Print Devices
Printers
and
Faxes
window
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Shared Print Devices
 Sharing a locally attached printer.
 Sharing print devices directly
connected to the network.
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Sharing a Locally Attached
Printer
 Repeated interruptions by multiple
users may affect the productivity of
the user.
 There is a reduction in speed and
response time, since the computer’s
resources are used for providing the
required output for multiple users.
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Sharing Print Devices Directly
Connected to the Network
 Print devices connected to the network
have their own internal network interface
card that provides network identification to
the device.
 Print devices are generally configured on a
centralized network to provide convenient
access to multiple users.
 Sharing of print devices decreases the
purchase, installation, and maintenance
cost of the printer.
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Understand Windows Network
Printing
 On a workgroup, a shared print device’s
attributes are stored locally on the
computer.
 On a domain, the print device’s information
is added to the Active Directory (AD).
 The AD can be used when configuring the
network-printing capabilities on Windows
2000 Server and Windows XP Professional
Workstation.
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Understand Windows Network
Printing
 On non-domain Windows XP
computers, information about the
print device can be obtained over the
network using the NetCrawler
feature.
 The NetCrawler searches for and
automatically adds all available
shared network objects.
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Understand Windows Network
Printing
Add
Printer
Wizard
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Understand Windows Network
Printing
Selecting
a Printer
port
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Understand Windows Network
Printing
The following information has to be
provided while installing a networkcapable print device:
 The print device’s IP address.
 The print device’s manufacturer and
printer type.
 A share name for the print device.
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Understand NetWare Network Printing
 The NetWare 6.0 operating system’s
printing service includes a new printing
option called iPrint.
 The iPrint service is Internet-based, and it
uses the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) to
make printing available from any computer
having an Internet browser.
 It uses the Novell Distributed Print Services
(NDPS) to distribute the print process to all
networked users.
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Understand NetWare Network
Printing
 The NDPS effectively combines older
print components like the printer,
print queue, and print server into one
print object called the Printer Agent.
 It manages the configuration of the
printer through Novell Directory
Services (NDS).
 The NDPS also handles the drivers
used at the workstations.
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Understand NetWare Network
Printing
NDPS includes the following
components:
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Broker
Manager
Printer
Gateway
Client
Broker
 A Broker is an iPrint component
essential for the proper operation of
Novell’s print process.
 It connects the printing process to
various services on the NetWare
server.
 A Broker can be created on a
NetWare 6 server using Novell's
Internet management feature called
iManage.
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Broker
The Broker provides the following services:
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Service Registry Services (SRS) - The Broker is responsible for
registering the information and services provided by printers.
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Event Notification Services (ENS) - The Broker is responsible
for hosting event notification from each printer.
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Resource Management Services (RMS) – The Broker serves as
the central repository for storing and providing proper drivers
or other items such as additional printer fonts.
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Broker
iPrint
Management
options
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Broker
Create
Broker
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Manager
 The NDPS Manager (NDPSM) provides
a location for storing information
about the network’s print devices.
 The information stored in the NDPSM
is used to manage the printer’s
operation from a particular server.
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Manager
 The NDPSM is an object created in
the NDS tree.
 A specific NDPSM can only reside on
one server.
 Each NDPSM can represent more than
one printer.
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Printer
 Each print device is represented by a
Printer Agent (PA), which is commonly
called the Printer or Printer object.
 Printer Agents can be software items
running on a server.
 They can also be embedded in the printer
attached directly to the network, to
servers, and to workstations.
 Each PA can only represent a single
physical printer.
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Printer
The printer objects perform the
following functions:
 Manage the printing process for their
respective physical printers.
 Answer any client-generated queries for
print job information or printer
attributes.
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Printer
The printer objects perform the
following functions (continued):
 Provide the server and the user
with event-notification information
about the printers they manage.
 Ensure the scalability of the printing
environment.
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Gateway
 Gateways are information objects
that are configured to provide printer
specifics over the network.
 They translate requests sent to the
printers into printer-recognizable
machine code.
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Gateway
 Gateways allow non-NDPS printers to
receive print jobs over the network
and facilitate their management and
use.
 Novell NetWare 6 includes Gateways
that provide access to printers that
are not NDPS-aware.
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Client
 iPrint client is a small piece of
software that is required to use an
iPrint printer and the NDPS printing
service from the network’s
workstations.
 The iPrint client is located using the
Web browser to reach the iPrint
printer.
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Summary
 Local printers, print servers, and networkcapable printers are the three basic printing
configurations available.
 Print servers refer to computers that offer
their printing services to others on the
network.
 A printer serves as the software interface
between an application and the print
device.
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Summary
 The Windows XP NetCrawler feature
searches and automatically lists all
network objects.
 Broker, Manager, Gateway, Printer,
and Client form the components of
NDPS.
 The Broker provides Service Registry
Services, Event Notification Services,
and Resource Management Services.
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