Oce cm3530 Network Administrator's Manual - page 173

Network Administrator’s Guide — Setting up NetWare Print Server

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Setting up NDPS Using Imagistics NDPS Gateway

The Imagistics NDPS Gateway mechanism employs several components, notably the NDPS

Manager, NDPS Broker, and NDPS Printer Agent. The following figure illustrates the communi-

cation flow between these objects.

Step 1: The NetWare printer can be discovered in two ways:

• The printer is automatically discovered by the Imagistics NDPS Gate-

way.

• You add it manually to the NDPS Manager, which resides on the 

same NetWare file server as the Imagistics NDPS Gateway.

Step 2: When an end-user attempts to add a NDPS printer, the client queries

the NDPS Brokers to identify all available NDPS printers.

Step 3: The NDPS Broker responds with a list of NDPS Printer Agents. The

user selects a Printer Agent and the Imagistics NDPS Gateway down-

loads the appropriate driver to the user’s desktop.

Step 4: When the client workstation is ready to print, it sends the print job to

the Printer Agent, which is a virtual printer image created in the NDPS

network.

Step 5: The NDPS Manager then passes the print jobs to the Imagistics NDPS

Gateway.

Step 6: The Imagistics NDPS Gateway issues the printing commands to the

printer.

— Installing the Imagistics NDPS Gateway

„ Considerations and Limitations

•

The Imagistics NDPS Gateway can be installed in servers running NetWare 5.x with service

pack 3A (3.0.1) or higher or NetWare 6.x. A self-extracting executable file contains both the

Imagistics NDPS Gateway and a NetWare Admin Snap-in component that are necessary to

support NDPS printing on the equipment.

•

The NDPS Manager can drive several Gateways simultaneously. The Imagistics NDPS

Gateway does not interfere with other manufacturer’s Gateways.

•

The Imagistics NDPS Gateway supports multiple printers; one printer can also be split

between several Gateways to balance the work load.

•

Both NDPS and non-NDPS users can share the same printer.

NetWare File Server

End User

Administrator

1

1

6

NDPS Broker

Printer Agent

NDPS Manager

5

2

3

4