Before a printer can be incorporated into a Novell® Distributed Print ServicesTM (NDPSTM) printing environment, it must be represented by a Printer Agent. No Printer Agent can represent more than one printer, and no printer can be represented by more than one Printer Agent.
The Printer Agent lies at the heart of NDPS, combining the functions previously performed by a printer, print queue, print server, and spooler into one intelligent and simplified entity.
The Printer Agent can be any of the following:
A Printer Agent provides the following services:
For information about other major NDPS components, see the following:
