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The B6250/B6500 has been designed to operate with the following
Novell Printing mechanisms:
• NPRINTER
• PSERVER
• NDPS
• Banner Pages
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NPRINTER Printing
NPRINTER is a type of non-NDPS printing. With NPRINTER (called
RPRINTER in pre-4.x versions of NetWare), a Novell print server
module running on a NetWare server manages a print queue to
which clients send their print jobs. The Novell print server sends data
from the queue to the B6250/B6500 acting as a network printer.
The protocol requires the printer to log in to the network and check
in with its server. Thus, the printer must be told the name of the
print server used. The provided print server name should be the
same as the NetWare printer object that represents it.
The Print Server must be selected by the PSERVER NetWare
Loadable Module (NLM) prior to printing. After the printer has made
the connection to the print server, the print server can begin sending
it print jobs from the associated queues.
The client must have Novell network printing (at least non-NDPS)
installed to print to this printer. The client should also be logged onto
the Novell network.
The client connects to the associated server print queue. When using
the Add Printer interface, the client would choose a network printer
and navigate to the print queue which the user could think of as a
printer. The B6250/B6500 print driver for the client operating
system driver is used. As an alternative to using Add Printer, the
user can simply navigate to the print queue, right click it and choose
connect.
NPRINTER mode requires IPX to be used between the printer and the
Novell server. However, clients can use TCP/IP to print jobs. That is,
TCP/IP can be used as the transport protocol between the client and
the server hosting the print queue.
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