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administrators to easily authorize or restrict print administration and services to specific groups or users by using
their existing user name and password of the NT 4.0 domain. An NT domain is a logical grouping of network servers
and other computers that share a common security and user account for each user. Users log on to the domain, not
to individual servers in the domain.
Installing printers on each client computer is required in order for clients to be able to print using the PSA. With the
Microsoft Point and Print technology, printers are added to the PSA and associated with a factory-installed driver or
a driver already associated with a printer. Clients can be easily set up with access to that printer and its driver
without having to install the driver again.
In a typical network, general purpose servers manage both the printing tasks and the file/application serving. The
PSA handles the spooling and network traffic associated with printing, reducing the workload on the general
purpose server.
When printing takes place at remote offices or other locations distant from the servers, the speed of printing can be
degraded. A PSA installed in a remote office can dramatically increase printing performance by eliminating the need
for print requests to travel from the remote office to the central site and back to a remote office printer.
An additional benefit is that if general purpose file/application servers go down, remote office users can still print
many jobs directly, using the PSA.
Operation and Management
Once the PSA is configured, virtually no management tasks are required. However, system administrators can
monitor print activity, manage the printers, or alter the configuration of the PSA from anywhere on the network
using the PSA's web-based graphical user interface and a supported browser, or by using Web Jetadmin.
Web Jetadmin plug-ins have been designed to configure and manage multiple PSAs. The Web Jetadmin plug-ins for
PSA firmware version 2.4.x. are dependent on Web Jetadmin (version 7.2). The Web Jetadmin plug-ins provide LAN
administrators and IT managers a single tool to manage their printing environment. The plug-ins provide the
following management capabilities for the PSA:
● Automated migration of printers from Microsoft Windows servers
● Automated migration of existing printer connections on Microsoft Windows clients
● Auto-discovery of PSAs
● Batch configuration of most settings
● Remote print path creation
● Remote management of printer drivers
● Central device status reporting
● Scheduled batch firmware upgrades
● Scheduled backup/restore of configuration settings
Product Description
The PSA contains a large disk drive for spooling print jobs from clients. Print jobs are stored on the disk drive. The
number of print jobs is only limited by the disk space available on the PSA.
The PSA provides web-accessible printer management and configuration and spools print jobs from the following
clients:
● Microsoft Windows 95
● Microsoft Windows 98
● Microsoft Windows 2000