Macintosh Port Monitor

The Macintosh port monitor transmits jobs over a network by using the AppleTalk protocol to network-attached print devices. It also lets you send jobs to AppleTalk spoolers, regardless of the print device to which the spooler is attached.

The port monitor is available on Windows 2000 and enables any Windows 2000–based computer to send local print jobs to AppleTalk print devices. The port monitor enables Windows 2000 to send print jobs to an AppleTalk print device regardless of how the print job was sent to the server.

Some print devices process non-PostScript print jobs incorrectly if they receive those jobs over AppleTalk. Also, some print devices process PostScript jobs incorrectly if those jobs contain binary data and arrive over any protocol other than AppleTalk. These problems usually result from restrictions in those print devices.

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