TITLE:              NWL Printing Conventions and Suggestions
DOCUMENT ID:        TID1200404
DOCUMENT REVISION:  3
DATE:               12Apr95
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NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
NETWARE LITE V1.1

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Printing Conventions and Suggestions

Chances are you bought NetWare Lite to share one or more printers. 
For this reason, give special attention to the following remarks: 

Local Network Printers

 When a printer is assigned as a network printer, you should only
access that printer through the network.  You may have a printer
attached to your workstation that has been defined as a Network
Printer.  In this case, you should capture a port when you wish to
print to it.  If you print to it directly (not using capture), you
may cause print job corruption.

Characters Per Second and Print Buffers

Network printers are created in the NET menu utility in the
"Supervise the Network" category.  When a printer is created, you can
configure the performance of the printer relative to the DOS running
on the same machine where the printer is attached.  This is done by
modifying the "Chars per second" parameter with the "Print buffer
size" parameter of the server configuration.

The print buffer is an area in memory where characters are stored
before being printed.  The larger the print buffer size, the less
often the server will need to go to disk to read more characters to
print.  If the "Chars per second" value is high (relatively speaking)
and the "Print buffer size" is large (relatively speaking), the
printer will be driven faster and the DOS running on that machine
will be interrupted more often to send characters to the printer.

The converse is also true if the value of "Chars per second" is low
and "Print buffer size" is small.  These values should also be tuned
to the speed or desired speed of the printer.  If the printer is
physically a "slow" printer, then setting the "Chars per second"
parameter to a high number will have no effect.  Additionally, if the
"Chars per second" is set higher than the "Print buffer size"
parameter then this will have little effect, as well.

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