Title: Lesson 8-Printing Over a Network
1Lesson 8-Printing Over a Network
2Overview
- Understand network printing concepts.
- Understand Windows network printing.
- Understand NetWare network printing.
3Understand 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.
4Understand Network PrintingConcepts
Basic printing configurations for networked
computers
5Understand Network PrintingConcepts
- Local print devices.
- Shared print devices.
6Local 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.
7Local 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.
8Local Print Devices
Add Printer Wizard
9Local Print Devices
Selecting a Printer port
10Local Print Devices
Installing the Printer software
11Local Print Devices
Printer Sharing window
12Local Print Devices
Printers and Faxes window
13Shared Print Devices
- Sharing a locally attached printer.
- Sharing print devices directly connected to the
network.
14Sharing 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.
15Sharing 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.
16Understand 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.
17Understand 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.
18Understand Windows NetworkPrinting
Add Printer Wizard
19Understand Windows NetworkPrinting
Selecting a Printer port
20Understand 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.
21Understand 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.
22Understand 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.
23Understand NetWare NetworkPrinting
- NDPS includes the following components
- Broker
- Manager
- Printer
- Gateway
- Client
24Broker
- 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.
25Broker
- 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.
26Broker
iPrint Management options
27Broker
Create Broker
28Manager
- 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.
29Manager
- 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.
30Printer
- 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.
31Printer
- 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.
32Printer
- 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.
33Gateway
- 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.
34Gateway
- 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.
35Client
- 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.
36Summary
- 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.
37Summary
- 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.