Mackie V7.0 manual Introduction to administering Xprint

Introduction to administering Xprint V7.0 Xprint V7.0 architecture

common printers, and with one generic PCL which in most cases also allows printing on unknown printers. A list of the PCLs supported by Xprint V7.0 is provided in the Reference Manual.

As an administrator you can define, modify and delete PCLs.

●Permission lists (-prm)

With permission lists, you can define the following privileges under Xprint V7.0:

–Which users may/may not use a printer, a printer group or a gateway.

–Which administrators may assign a new supervisor to a specific server.

–Which users may/may not use a specific form.

–Which forms may/may not be used on a specific printer.

There are two types of permission list: "allowed lists" and "denied lists". An allowed list is used to specify which users or forms are allowed to use the relevant object, while the denied list defines which users or forms are not allowed to use a specific object. The allowed list of a printer, for example, restricts use of the printer to the users contained in the list. The denied list of a printer defines that the printer can be accessed by all users except for those contained in the list.

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The administrator of a specific object (printer, server, form) can always access the object, irrespective of the contents of the associated permission list.

Basically, permission lists for objects are handled as follows: if there is an entry in the allowed list, the denied list is ignored; if the allowed list is empty, the denied list applies. If both lists are empty, access to the object is unrestricted.

●Print jobs (-job)

Print jobs are submitted by users and, as described in the previous section, can be modified. They are administered by the servers responsible for the respective print queues. Print jobs are not part of the Xprint V7.0 database like printers, servers etc., but they are stored in the server spoolin directory.

In addition to the normal modification options, as an administrator you can redirect all print jobs for a printer to another printer.

●Printers (-dev)

Xprint V7.0 can use printers of many different types.

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