
6 GETTING TO KNOW THE M204: M204 Features
• load-balancing so a job can be redirected to an idle printer instead of waiting for
a particular one to free up,
• the choice to disable selected Print Server services,
• extra printing functionality such as carriage return insertion to remove some of
the processing burden from the host,
• banner/trailer page generation,
• autosensing of job/file format for ASCII to PostScript conversion or for
automatic switching of the printer’s emulation mode,
• header and trailer strings to instruct printers in tray selection, font, pitch,
simplex/duplex, and other options,
• logging to keep track of job, user, page count, checksum, and printer error
information,
• TCP/IP syslog and SMTP (email) support for additional logging functionality,
• backchanneling for printers to send various PostScript messages about: print-job
status, paper out, paper jam, busy, toner out, etc. back through a serial port,
• queuing of all print jobs on LANs or WANs, while supporting up to four printers
simultaneously,
TCP/IP Features:
• further configuration security through TCP access lists,
• scrambled print job data to protect the job as it passes over the network,
• ability to telnet and ping to another host on the network from the M204 allowing
for terminal server capabilities,
• up to 256 simultaneous TCP connections,
• GOSIP RFC-1042 support,
• IP Routing support for communications over separate networks,
• FTP daemon support for printing, unit monitoring, and configuration,
• SLIP support for serial port network communications,
Novell Features
• support for all versions of NetWare, including NetWare 4,
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