Mackie V7.0 manual Configuring printers for BSD Xprint, Accessing BSD printers Interoperability

Accessing BSD printers Interoperability

Figure 13: Accessing BSD printers

To establish the connection to a BSD printer, you must configure a pseudo printer on one system in your Xprint V7.0 domain which the Xprint V7.0 users can specify as the target for their print jobs and which forwards the print jobs it receives to the BSD printer by using the fast filter bsd for printing.

As this pseudo printer is addressed just like a local printer, it is fully transparent to the users that the document is printed on a BSD printer and not on a local printer. The only difference to a local printer is the fact that print jobs cannot be administered after submission. Also, displaying the job queue is only possible to a certain extent as print jobs are considered to be not yet printed only as long as they are not yet transferred to the remote BSD printer spooler.

If this functionality is required, access via the fast filter bsd is not sufficient. In this case, a gateway connection must be established (see section “Gateways” on page 213).

7.2.2Configuring printers for BSD Xprint V7.0

If you want to provide access to a BSD printer, you must first define the fast filter bsd in the system and then assign it to a local printer configured specially for this purpose. This local pseudo printer then acts as a substitute for the real BSD printer. As soon as it receives a job, it passes it on to the specified BSD printer spooler where the job will later be printed.

Proceed as follows:

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