User Manual
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PhaserLink Printing Software Overview
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Alternative configuration
Your email system may not be as simple as the one shown in the diagram on page 4,
especially if you are printing to printers at a different company. The following
illustration may better represent your email system configuration. In this more
complicated setup, both the printer and the client are connected to two SMTP email
servers (for a total of four SMTP email servers). If your network is configured
somewhat like this, you’ll need to keep in mind the various IP addresses of the
different SMTP servers.
The illustrations on page 4 and page 5 show only one client PC and one printer.
Now imagine hundreds of PCs and hundreds of remote Tektronix printers — you
begin to see the possible power (and complexity) of printing over the Internet.
Fortunately, the PhaserLink Printing client software makes it easy to configure and
organize the email server, printer IP addresses, and other information that
PhaserLink Printing Software needs.
Client = Windows PC
User's email
application
Destination
Manager
File
Edit View
Print Ctrl+P
Print Preview
A Windows Application
SMTP email
server no.1
Firewall
Firewall
SMTP email
server no.2
SMTP email
server no.4
Printer with
PhaserShare Series B network interface
(e.g. Phaser 360)
POP3 email server
(also SMTP
email server)
Print Redirector
A user executes a print
command from a Windows
application to a remote
Tektronix printer or group
of printers.
The Print Redirector captures
the print data, encapsulates
the print data into an SMTP
email message or messages,
then sends the email to the
client's SMTP email server.
The SMTP email server
forwards the email (perhaps
through a firewall) to the
POP3 email server connected
to the remote printer.
The POP3 email server stores
the message(s) for distribution
to the printer.
The PhaserLink Printing Server
on the Phaser color printer
retrieves the email message(s)
and prints it as a PostScript
print file.
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Printer status messages
are sent back via the
printer's own SMTP email
server.
Printer status messages
are forwarded to the client
through a separate SMTP
email server.
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