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Appendix Checklist for adding a printer

When you have entered all the given data in the worksheet, you can fill out the other fields concerning printers (“Name” and “Supervisor name”). It makes sense to have the Xprint V7.0 administrator assign these globally to make sure that the names are unique within the Xprint V7.0 network. You can choose any name you wish, but every printer must be given a unique name. The printers can be named, for example, according to their type, their location, or the computer to which they are connected. It is only important that the names are unique throughout the network.

On every computer to which printers are connected, there must be at least one supervisor defined which controls these printers. Whether several printers are to be controlled by one supervisor or whether each printer is to have its own supervisor, depends on the resource requirements (processes) and on avail- ability considerations. Each supervisor entered in the “Connected printers” table in the worksheet must also be entered in the “Name” field in the “Supervisors used” table.

Each supervisor is controlled by a server, for which purpose any server in the network can be used. For each local supervisor on the computer, enter the name of the server responsible for this supervisor (“Server name” field) and on which computer the server runs (“Host name” field).

As already described, a default supervisor/server can be used for each host. By default, these are named after the corresponding host.

When you have completed the worksheet, the computer can be added to the Xprint V7.0 system.

Checklist for adding a printer

There are a large number of options available for the xpadd -devcommand, which allow you to optimally adjust every printer in the Xprint V7.0 system to meet the requirements of your environment. To be able to make the best possible use of these options, you may have to set up permission lists, forms, fonts, filters etc. before adding a new printer to the system. Furthermore, you should know which printer attributes are supported by the PCL of the new printer. Use the following questions to check whether all the requirements for using the

xpadd -devcommand are fulfilled.

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