D-Link DP-100 Product Manual - Page 14

♦ The DP-100 picks up the workload of managing print file traffic to its connected printers. This provides workload relief to your file servers, and allows the file servers' full capacity to be used for file access or other direct services to network users. On peer-to-peer networks, workstations can print directly to the DP-100 without increasing the load of another workstation or server. ♦ The DP-100's parallel printer ports are IEEE 1284 compliant highspeed bidirectional ports, which can transmit to high-speed laser printers much faster than a PC's parallel printer port. High-speed laser printers connected to the DP-100's parallel ports can be operated at full their capacity. ♦ Because the DP-100 is very portable and inexpensive compared to a PC-based print server, and because the DP-100 connects to your fileservers through the network, printers can be deployed to locations of maximum convenience to users. The DP-100 offers extraordinary flexibility, operating with all major network operating systems and protocols: ♦ IPX/SPX Novell NetWare 3.x, 4.x (Using either bindery emulation or native NDS) ♦ TCP/IP UNIX lpr/lpd (HP-UX, SunOS, Solaris, SCO, UnixWare, IBM AIX) Windows NT ♦ NetBEUI Windows NT, Windows 95, Windows for Workgroups, Microsoft LAN Manager, IBM LAN Server ♦ AppleTalk MacOS EtherTalk 2 Introduction