Konica Minolta Magicolor 7300, Reference Manual

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Serverless Printing 188
Serverless Printing
The illustration shows a
simplified section of a
typical network
environment. A workstation
(WS1) generates print data
from a software application
and transmits it via the
network to the network
server. The network server
stores the data on its hard
disk (in what is called a
print queue). After the data
transmission is completed,
the network server sends
the print job to the printer
via the same network.
This method has two major
disadvantages:
1
The print data is sent
two times across the
network, increasing the network traffic.
2
It also takes much longer to print from the time the workstation sends the
data until the print job is completely printed.
Not only do you have to wait a relatively long time before the printer starts to
process the job, but all other users on the network experience a slower
response time as well.
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