System overview
NPS/IPS concurrent printing
The Xerox NPS/IPS can receive a variety of data streams including IPDS, PostScript Levels 1 and 2, PCL 5e, TIFF, and ASCII. The system automatically senses the type of job and processes it appropriately.
When your system is printing IPDS jobs, it can accept network PDL data streams in the background. When network PDL jobs are printing, only one IPDS job can be queued.
SNMP support
The system provides functionality to export the state of a printer using the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), thus allowing printer management software to monitor and report on the printer state.
SNMP is a standardized communications protocol for managing arbitrary networked devices from different vendors, such as workstations, servers, printers, or routers. The information to be communicated is presented as variable name/value pairs, defined in a set of standardized management information bases (MIBs). The MIBs define the legal variables, their types, and possibly a fixed set of values.
SNMP was designed to facilitate managing a heterogeneous set of networked devices that communicate using TCP/IP. Specifically, it addressed management of the network itself and the network traffic between those devices. Over time, MIBs were defined to expand the types of devices that could be managed using SNMP. For example, MIBs were defined specific to managing a workstation or a printer.
The system currently supports variables defined in the following
MIBs:
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This MIB defines the basic set of variables any device running TCP/IP should make accessible. It includes, for a particular device, variables for information such as a system description, information about each of the network interfaces present on the device, and information about all the IP datagrams sent and received by the device.
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