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Two models of printing ✔Correct Answer-Direct Printing Model
Modern Printing Model
Which printing model is considered old school? ✔Correct Answer-Direct Printing Model
Direct Printing Model ✔Correct Answer-Application printed directly to the printer
Maximizes accuracy & control
Direct Printing Model requires what? ✔Correct Answer-drivers required for each application and
each printer
Modern Printing Model ✔Correct Answer-Uses a printer server to manage communications
between clients and printers
Can run on the printer itself or on a separate network accessible server
What does SPOOL stand for? ✔Correct Answer-Simultaneous peripheral operations on-line
What is SPOOL? ✔Correct Answer-Essentially a buffer service
Write formatted documents to hard drive and pass the control to printer
Automatic Driver Installation ✔Correct Answer-Drivers are traditionally installed on the clients
"Auto magical"
When connect to a network printer (via a print server) the correct driver is provided to the client
workstation without user intervention
Having multiple queues for a single physical printer ✔Correct Answer-Set permissions on who can
use each queue
Prioritize jobs
Having multiple physical printers for a single queue ✔Correct Answer-Printer "pooling"
Useful if you have more print jobs than a single printer can handle
All printers in a pool must have what? ✔Correct Answer-same driver
What printer permissions must a user have? ✔Correct Answer-Printer permission
"creator/owner"
"Manage documents"
Manage documents permission allows ✔Correct Answer-allows user to kill and re-order other
users' print jobs
Allows a user to change printer related settings and configuration
, Benefits of "Manage Documents" permission ✔Correct Answer-Useful if someone sends
something that screws up the printer but isn't paying attention to the results
Helpful if this person is physically located close to the printer
Reduces the amount of print related calls you have to deal with as the system administrator
Traditional printer connection ✔Correct Answer-Serial- Unix and mainframe
USB- consumer printers (wireless gaining popularity)
workgroup printers rely on ✔Correct Answer-network to deliver print jobs
workgroup printers require what? ✔Correct Answer-use of a print server
Print server ✔Correct Answer-controls the flow of data between network and print engine itself
through the use of a spooler service
Traditional printing protocol ✔Correct Answer-LPR (line printer remote)
LPR Limitations ✔Correct Answer-limited regarding source ports that can be use
LPR times out after 4 minutes
LPR is uni-directional
LPR requires accurate job sizing
To use LPR, each client must.. ✔Correct Answer-specify the host and the queue
host is what? ✔Correct Answer-DNS name or IP address of printer
Queue identifies ✔Correct Answer-how job is formatted
Two types of job formats ✔Correct Answer-RAW
TEXT
RAW job format ✔Correct Answer-assumes a PDL-formatted job and adds no processing
TEXT job format ✔Correct Answer-Can be used for ASCII text and the printer sever will add a CR to
the end of each line
Benefits of RAW ✔Correct Answer-No port limits
No timeout
Bi-directional
More lenient regarding job size
CUPS ✔Correct Answer-Common unix printing system
Protocol for printing in linux
Included in CUPS ✔Correct Answer-spooler
scheduler