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Accessing BSD printers Interoperability
Figure 13: Accessing BSD printers
To establish the connection to a BSD printer, you must configure a pseudo
printer on one system in your Xprint V7.0 domain which the Xprint V7.0 users
can specify as the target for their print jobs and which forwards the print jobs it
receives to the BSD printer by using the fast filter bsd for printing.
As this pseudo printer is addressed just like a local printer, it is fully transparent
to the users that the document is printed on a BSD printer and not on a local
printer. The only difference to a local printer is the fact that print jobs cannot be
administered after submission. Also, displaying the job queue is only possible
to a certain extent as print jobs are considered to be not yet printed only as long
as they are not yet transferred to the remote BSD printer spooler.
If this functionality is required, access via the fast filter bsd is not sufficient. In
this case, a gateway connection must be established (see section “Gateways”
on page 213).
7.2.2 Configuring printers for BSD Xprint V7.0
If you want to provide access to a BSD printer, you must first define the fast filter
bsd in the system and then assign it to a local printer configured specially for
this purpose. This local pseudo printer then acts as a substitute for the real BSD
printer. As soon as it receives a job, it passes it on to the specified BSD printer
spooler where the job will later be printed.
Proceed as follows: