Mackie V7.0 manual Introduction, Type of interoperation Description

Introduction Interoperability

Xprint V7.0 can assume the role of a client that uses the print services of the other spooler system involved, or the role of a server that makes its printers available to other systems. In the previous figure this is illustrated by two arrows from and to the other spooler system. If the arrows are of different colors, there are two possible ways of interoperation which depend on the software used. These methods are as follows:

Type of interoperation	Description
Accessing a BSD printer spooler from Xprint V7.0, i.e.	page 209
sending print jobs to printers connected via a BSD printer
spooler.
Connecting Xprint V7.0 and another printer spooler via a	page 213
gateway, i.e. allowing access from Xprint V7.0 to another
printer spooler and vice versa.
Table 27: Interoperation methods

These methods are based on two different ways of interconnecting different spooler systems. In the case of interoperation with BSD printer spoolers, you can allow local Xprint V7.0 users access by defining for every printer of the BSD system a local printer which forwards the print jobs to the BSD system like an lpr client. This functionality is available in any Xprint V7.0 system, including those not installed as network systems. In such a case, access to the BSD system is effected via a fast filter which is assigned to the local (pseudo) printer.

Xprint V7.0 also allows you to define what are called gateways to other Xprint V7.0 systems. Gateways allow bidirectional connections between Xprint V7.0 and other spooler systems. Such gateways can only be defined if the gateway package of Xprint V7.0 was purchased.

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