DocuColor 2060 NPS/IPS on a Novell network
D-2 Installation Planning Guide
Print queues
A print queue is a holding area on the file server where print jobs
are stored until a printer is ready. A queue allows multiple users
to send jobs to the same printer at the same time. The queue
software accepts and tracks jobs to enable users to view,
remove, and change values of jobs while they are in the queue.
Each queue has a directory on a hard disk. A print job sent to a
queue is stored as a file within that directory. Once the job is
printed, the file is removed from the queue directory.
The print queue software maintains a temporary record of
information for every print job. The information includes such
items as job number, job position in the queue, time the job
entered the queue, print server designated to print the job, user
ID of the person who submitted the job, and so on. The user can
access this information or cancel a job, using PCONSOLE, for
each queue.
Queue to printer relationships
Novell NetWare allows for flexibility in setting up different printing
configurations. Multiple queues and printers can be associated in
different ways to meet different needs, such as the following:
• One queue to one printer
• Multiple queues to one printer
• One queue to many printers
• Multiple queues to multiple printers.
PCONSOLE
PCONSOLE is the main Novell utility used for creating, viewing
and managing print queues. When you create a queue with
PCONSOLE, the Novell software sets up the queue directory
and a bindery entry. The bindery is the database of all users,
groups, and other defined entities on the NetWare file ser ver.
NOTE: There is no PCONSOLE access at the DocuColor 2060 NPS/IPS printer controller.