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Setting up Network Servers
Installing the Pi5500 as a shared PostScript printer
The first step in creating a printer is installing the Windows NT PostScript printer
driver and the Pi5500 PostScript printer description file (PPD), which gives your
applications access to some printer features. The installation instructions in
Getting
Started
can be used for every workstation that will print directly and independently to
the Pi5500. However, if you are an administrator running Windows NT 4.0 Server or
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, you can also create a printer and share it with
Windows NT 4.0 clients on the network. When a printer is shared, Windows NT 4.0
clients who are not able or are not given permission to establish an independent
network connection to the Pi5500 have to print through the server.
You can specify sharing of the printer during installation of the Pi5500 printer files. If
you have not yet installed the Pi5500 printer files on the Windows NT 4.0 print
server, do so now following the instructions in
Getting Started.
During installation,
enter the information necessary to share the Pi5500.
If you have already installed the Pi5500 printer files on the computer you are using as a
Windows NT 4.0 print server, see your Windows documentation for information
about sharing the Pi5500.
If more than one Pi5500 print connection is published (for example, if both the Print
queue and the Hold queue are published), you may want to create a printer for each
print connection so that you and other users can print to each connection directly.
When prompted to specify the printer name, you may want to enter a name that
indicates the Pi5500 print connection.
