CHAPTER 9
WEB PRINTING SETUP
OVERVIEW
NEC PrintAgent is innovative software that allows you to print over the Internet in two ways, Remote Printing and Pull Printing. PrintAgent is powered by redipS® Core software, and available just by browsing to your printer’s home page.
Printer Home Page Features
The URL is the IP address or host name you assign to the Printer,
for example, http://131.241.45.65
PrintAgent Remote Printing
If you are a Windows 95/98 or Windows NT user, Remote Printing is the easiest way to print over the web and get instant printer status. You can print to any SuperScript color laser printer anywhere, as long as you have its URL.
All you do is browse to the printer’s home page and download/install the PrintAgent driver to your system or install directly from the CD that came with your SuperScript color laser printer. When you print with the PrintAgent driver, the job goes over the web to the printer, and printer status comes back to your desktop on the PrintAgent Status window. The first part of this chapter covers the following topics about Remote Printing:
•System requirements
•Remote Printing setup
•Remote Printing from your desktop
•Getting printer status
•PrintAgent features
•PrintAgent menus and commands
NEC PrintAgent Pull Printing
Pull Printing is an ideal solution for busy offices that print long, complex, or color rich documents. With Pull Printing, your job is sent to a Pull Printing server to be processed. Then the Pull Printing server delivers the job to the printer. This frees your computer, and reduces network traffic. You can also set up a secondary server to deliver printer Help files and drivers to users, making the printer more efficient.
Pull Printing is also called “driverless” printing because you don’t need a SuperScript Color Laser printer driver on your system. You can pull print any Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, .PDF file, or web page without opening it— just by sending its location to the Pull Printing server. The server does all the work and leaves your computer free for other tasks. The second part of this chapter covers the following topics about Pull Printing:
•Pull Printing from your desktop
•Server system requirements
•Server software installation
•Secondary server
•Configuring URLs
•Starting the Pull Printing server
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