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5-13 GA-1040 on a TCP/IP network with Windows NT 4.0
Installing the GA-1040 as a shared PostScript printer
The first step in creating a printer is installing the Windows NT PostScript printer
driver and the GA-1040 PostScript printer description file (PPD), which gives your
applications access to some printer features. The installation instructions in Getting
Started can be used for every workstation that will print directly and independently to
the GA-1040. However, if you are an administrator running Windows NT 4.0 Server
or Windows NT 4.0 Workstation, you can also create a printer and share it with clients
on the network. When a printer is shared, clients who are not able or are not given
permission to establish an independent network connection to the GA-1040 have to
print through the server.
You can specify sharing of the printer during installation of the GA-1040 printer files.
If you have not yet installed the GA-1040 printer files on the Windows NT 4.0 print
server computer, do so now following the instructions in Getting Started. During
installation, enter the information necessary to share the GA-1040.
If you have already installed the GA-1040 printer files on the computer you are using
as a Windows NT 4.0 print server, see your Windows documentation for information
about sharing the GA-1040.
If more than one GA-1040 print connection is published (for example, if both the
Print queue and the Hold queue are published), you may wish to create a printer for
each print connection so that you and other users can print to each connection
directly. When prompted to specify the printer name, you may want to enter a name
that indicates the GA-1040 print connection.
