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M208 INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE: Overview 89
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M208 INTERNAL ARCHITECTURE
Overview
This chapter will provide a more detailed description of the internal operating archi-
tecture of the M208 including: destinations, models, variables, logpaths, and I/O
ports.
Destinations
The M208 provides six printer destinations that are used by all hosts. A destination
can be thought of as logical place on the M208 to which hosts send their print jobs.
Destinations allow you the ability to configure a number of different print setups on
the M208.
Destinations map a name, with a nine-character maximum, to the I/O ports and by
default, each I/O port comes with two destinations mapped to it. The default
destination names are:
d1prn d2com1 d3com2
d4prn d5com1 d6com2
Any of the six destinations can be matched to any of the three I/O ports, and each des-
tination uses one of the defined models for processing. The destination list is limited
to a maximum of six entries, and is configured through the npsh interface on the Print
Server. Default destination names can also be changed to something more meaningful.
An alternate destination can also be configured so that a print job goes to another
printer if the defined printer is busy, in error, or off-line.
Destination definitions include: name, I/O port, backchannel, model used, logpath,
state, service(s) supported, and alternate destination.
See also: list dest on page 99, set dest on page 107, Making An Alternate Print Desti-
nation on page 133, Manipulating the M208’s Services on page 133, and USING
NPWIN on page 127.
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