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DP-101 Print Server Hardware Guide 1 2 INTRODUCTION The DP-101 Print Server is a compact pocket-sized print server which connects your Ethernet network directly to your printer, wherever it is. It manages the flow of print files from your workstations or file servers to its connected printers, delivering print jobs to high-performance printers much faster than a file server or a PC acting as a print server can. Service Features DP-101 print servers improve network printing services in three ways: ♦ The DP-101 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-101 without increasing the load of another workstation or server. ♦ The DP-101's IEEE 1284 compliant high-speed bi-directional parallel printer port can transmit to high-speed laser printers much faster than a PC's parallel printer port. A high-speed laser printer can be driven at its full capacity. ♦ Because the DP-101 is very portable (pocket-sized) and inexpensive compared to a PC-based print server, and because the DP-101 connects to your file servers through the network, the printer can be stationed at the location of maximum convenience to users. The DP-101 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 Your D-Link DP-101 package includes PS Admin, a Windows-based setup and administration program, which makes configu-ration and management of your D-Link print servers quick and easy in a Windows environment. The DP-101 also has a Telnet interface for management communications. If Windows is not available on the station you choose for print server administration, then all configuration and management commands may be issued to the DP-101, and all console messages and management report information will be returned, via Telnet. 2 Introduction

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DP-101 Print Server Hardware Guide
Introduction
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NTRODUCTION
The DP-101 Print Server is a compact pocket-sized print server which connects your Ethernet
network directly to your printer, wherever it is. It manages the flow of print files from your
workstations or file servers to its connected printers, delivering print jobs to high-performance
printers much faster than a file server or a PC acting as a print server can.
Service Features
DP-101 print servers improve network printing services in three ways:
♦
The DP-101 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-101 without increasing the load of another workstation or server.
♦
The DP-101's IEEE 1284 compliant high-speed bi-directional parallel printer port can transmit
to high-speed laser printers much faster than a PC's parallel printer port.
A high-speed laser
printer can be driven at its full capacity.
♦
Because the DP-101 is very portable (pocket-sized) and inexpensive compared to a PC-based
print server, and because the DP-101 connects to your file servers through the network, the
printer can be stationed at the location of maximum convenience to users.
The DP-101 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
Your D-Link DP-101 package includes
PS Admin
, a Windows-based setup and administration
program, which makes configu-ration and management of your D-Link print servers quick and
easy in a Windows environment. The DP-101 also has a Telnet interface for management
communications. If Windows is not available on the station you choose for print server
administration, then all configuration and management commands may be issued to the DP-101,
and all console messages and management report information will be returned, via Telnet.