HP 2500c HP 2500C/C+/CM Professional Series Color Printer - (English) Network - Page 7

HP 2500C/C+/CM Supported Network Printer Connections 3. The HP 2500C/C+/CM Professional Series Color Printer supports the following network printer connections: 3.1 Printing through an HP JetDirect Print Server 3.1.1 Overview In this configuration, the printer is connected to the network via an HP JetDirect print server. This configuration provides better performance as well as flexibility in preparing a location for the printer. The HP 2500CM Professional Series Color Printer comes with an internal HP JetDirect Print Server. It is therefore recommended that the printer be shared on a network through the print server. There are two basic network configurations using the HP JetDirect print server: Client-Server printing and Peer-to-Peer printing. Client-Server printing is typically used in medium to large networks where dedicated computer servers are used to manage printing needs of many users. Client-server networks use network operating systems (NOS) such as Novell NetWare and Microsoft Windows NT Server 4.0. Peer-to-Peer printing is more suitable for smaller networks. On peerto-peer networks, users configure their Windows 95, Windows 98 or Windows NT 4.0 systems to print directly to the printer. 3.1.2 Supported Network Configurations for Client-Server Printing Server Windows NT 4.0 Windows 95/98 Novell NetWare 4.11 (Bindery) Novell NetWare 4.11 (NDS) Client Configurations Windows NT 4.0 Yes Not recommended Windows 95/98 Yes Yes Windows for Workgroups 3.11 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes 4