Lesson 8-Printing Over a Network

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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 PrintingConcepts

• 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 PrintingConcepts
Basic printing configurations for networked
computers
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Understand Network PrintingConcepts

• 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 computers 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 NetworkPrinting

• On a workgroup, a shared print devices
  attributes are stored locally on the computer.
• On a domain, the print devices 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 NetworkPrinting

• 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 NetworkPrinting
Add Printer Wizard
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Understand Windows NetworkPrinting
Selecting a Printer port
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Understand Windows NetworkPrinting

• The following information has to be provided
  while installing a network-capable print device
• The print devices IP address.
• The print devices manufacturer and printer type.
• A share name for the print device.

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Understand NetWare Network Printing

• The NetWare 6.0 operating systems 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 NetworkPrinting

• 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 NetworkPrinting

• NDPS includes the following components
• Broker
• Manager
• Printer
• Gateway
• Client

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Broker

• A Broker is an iPrint component essential for the
  proper operation of Novells 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
• Service Registry Services (SRS) - The Broker is
  responsible for registering the information and
  services provided by printers.
• Event Notification Services (ENS) - The Broker is
  responsible for hosting event notification from
  each printer.
• 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 networks print
  devices.
• The information stored in the NDPSM is used to
  manage the printers 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 networks 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
  network-capable 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.