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Chapter 5. Planning to share printers In many environments, sharing printers lets you get the most benefit from your printers. One of the primary benefits of using InfoPrint Manager is the ability to have various host and client systems share printing resources at a variety of levels. The level of sharing used depends on the requirements of the environment. Host System PSF MVS Download Windows Workstation PSF Direct Receiver IPM SERVER MVS Download Receiver lpd, Hot Folder Queue Actual Destination 1 Actual Destination 2 Actual Destination 3 (Upload) LAN Printer Figure 8. Sharing printers Methods for sharing printers You can share printers by having the print drivers share the communication link with the printer or by having various clients submit jobs to the same print queue. Print drivers communicate directly to printers. Print drivers include host PSF printers and InfoPrint Manager actual destinations. © Copyright InfoPrint Solutions Company 2000, 2009 27

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Chapter 5. Planning to share printers
In many environments, sharing printers lets you get the most benefit from your
printers. One of the primary benefits of using InfoPrint Manager is the ability to
have various host and client systems share printing resources at a variety of levels.
The level of sharing used depends on the requirements of the environment.
Methods for sharing printers
You can share printers by having the print drivers share the communication link
with the printer or by having various clients submit jobs to the same print queue.
Print drivers communicate directly to printers. Print drivers include host PSF
printers and InfoPrint Manager actual destinations.
Windows
Workstation
Host System
PSF
MVS
Download
lpd, Hot Folder
MVS Download
Receiver
PSF Direct
Receiver
Printer
Actual Destination
1
LAN
Actual Destination
2
Actual Destination
3 (Upload)
Queue
IPM SERVER
Figure 8. Sharing printers
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