Network Printing

Earlier Network-Interface Printing

The HP Network Print Monitor, Hpmon, is used to send documents to HP network adapters that support only the DLC protocol. Such adapters include both the JetDirect device, which connects a parallel printer to the network, and the network adapters installed in some printers to connect them directly to the network.

Prerequisites

To print to a network adapter by using Hpmon, you must meet the following requirements:

DLC must be available on the network on which the print device resides.
The DLC protocol must be installed on both the print server and the network adapter and enabled on the print server.
Any intervening subnet junctions must be bridged rather than routed. DLC is not routable.
The hardware address of the network adapter is needed for the print device.
Install Hpmon on the print server from the Windows 2000 product CD.

Creating a Port

Hpmon is installed when the DLC protocol is installed. You can create a port using the Port tab in either the Print Server Properties dialog box or the printer's Properties dialog box. Double-click Hewlett-Packard Network Port.

In the Name field, type a logical name for the port. It is used to identify the printer and is associated with the card address (or media access control (MAC) address). In the Card Address field, click the network adapter address. If the adapter is not on the network or you are working offline, the address is not listed and you must type it in. If it must be listed but is not, see if the adapter is correctly attached.

Hpmon does not allow more than one print server at a time to access the same network adapter, although each server can access it through more than one port. Configure the Hpmon ports as either a Job-based connection or a Continuous connection. The default is Continuous.

With Job-based connection, the print server connects to the adapter, sends a document, and disconnects when the document is printed. The connection is restored when you send another document. This enables other print servers to connect and print.

With Continuous connection, the print server stays connected until either it or the adapter is restarted. Security is more centralized because others cannot print to the device unless they manually restart it.

Note

If you configure two Windows 2000 print servers to send documents to the same network adapter, set both servers to Job-based connection, or one blocks the other from connecting.