Remote printer mode

As a remote printer, the Ethernet Card emulates a workstation running Novell’s RPRINTER program, and operates under the control of a Novel NetWare print server. The print server can be either a dedicated workstation running PSERVER or a file server.

At power-up, the interface will attempt to attach to a print server (elsewhere on the network) and act as a particular printer of that print server. To do this, it needs to know which print server to attach to, and which printer of that print server to use. This is similar to the need to specify these parameters in the RPRINTER command line (or to interactively choose them from the RPRINTER program).

You can set up these parameters on the Ethernet Card with the EPSON Net! utility. Once the interface card is set up, it will store these settings, which means that you will normally only need to do this once at the time of installation. However, as with all Novell remote printers, the card’s print speed is slower in remote printer mode than in print server mode.

The main advantage of remote printer mode is that connection to a file server is not required, making this mode desirable in installations with limited available file server connections. Each NetWare print server can support up to 16 printers and requires only one file server connection.

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