What Are The Advantages Of Using Hpdps; You Can Access Many Kinds Of Printers; Your Print Jobs Are Validated - HP 9000 User Manual

What Is HP Distributed Print Service?

What Are the Advantages of Using HPDPS?

What Are the Advantages of Using
HPDPS?
You Will Not Have to Start from Scratch to
Learn How to Print Jobs
You may not even be aware that you are using HPDPS-managed
printers. To send jobs to HPDPS printers, you can use the same
commands, applications, and "drag and drop" actions that you are using
today. All you do is just specify a printer configured as an HPDPS printer
as the destination for your job.

You Can Access Many Kinds of Printers

You may currently be using desktop PostScript printers,
network-attached printers, and host-attached production printers to
print from your applications. You may be using different print commands
or menus to access each of these printers and may get involved in some
complicated setup procedures to gain access to the printers you need.
With HPDPS, you can access the printers in your network without
having to know where the printers are located, which data formats they
accept, or to which print servers the printers are attached.

Your Print Jobs Are Validated

Submitting your job to an HPDPS-managed "logical" printer gives you
more power and flexibility than sending your job to a specific hardware
device. When you submit a job to a logical printer, HPDPS validates the
job before accepting it to ensure that a physical printer will be able to
print the job correctly. (More on the distinction between a logical printer
and a physical printer shortly.) You don't need to be an expert on data
formats or printer capabilities; HPDPS directs your job to a printer
capable of successfully completing your job, if one exists, or rejects your
job, if one doesn't exist. You do not have to wait until your job is printed,
possibly incorrectly, to find out whether the printer can accept a
particular data format or if it can print double-sided jobs (duplex).
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