HELIOS TCP/SLP Printer Driver now available for Mac OS X; 3X faster than AppleTalk-PAP Printing.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers GARBSEN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 20, 2003 HELIOS Software GmbH, a leading developer of network and prepress server software, announced the release of the HELIOS TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. based printer driver for Mac OS X that further enhances its 4th generation EtherShare 3.1 file and print server software. The HELIOS TCP/IP Print Driver is a component of the recently released EtherShare 3.1. It enables Mac OS 9 clients to print up to 3X faster than via AppleTalk PAP or Apple Remote LPR See LPR/LPD. lpr - Line printer. The Unix print command. This does not actually print files but rather copies (or links) them to a spool area from where a daemon copies them to the printer. .(1) It is now also available for Mac OS X clients. Integrated within the Mac OS X Print Center, the new HELIOS TCP/IP driver supports Service Location Protocol (SLP (Service Location Protocol) An IETF standard used to announce and discover services such as printers and file shares on an IP network. Apple used SLP prior to Mac OS 10.2, but migrated to its Bonjour technology. SLP is also used in SIP-based IP telephony applications. ) browsing, enabling the easy selection of printers via the TCP/SLP Chooser list or by IP name/address. It also automates PPD (1) (Parallel Presence Detect) The method used by earlier SIMM memory modules to communicate their capacity to the computer. A binary number coming from a parallel set of pins was read by the system, with each pin representing one bit. Contrast with SPD. (PostScript Printer Description PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files are created by vendors to describe the entire set of features and capabilities available for their PostScript printers. A PPD also contains the PostScript code (commands) used to invoke features for the print job. ) installation from the HELIOS print spooler. HELIOS TCP/IP printing offers some great advantages over printing via AppleTalk: -- Print from local or remote TCP/IP networks without AppleTalk support -- Faster printing by using TCP/IP instead of AppleTalk PAP (great performance improvement using 100-Mbit and faster networks) -- Enables secure remote printing The dramatic print speed increase and ease of use printing to an EtherShare server via the new HELIOS driver boosts workflows tremendously vs. printing directly to printers or other print servers. (1) See http://www.helios.de/news/news02/N_09_02.html for more details on throughput performance. Smart Ideas for Better Networking HELIOS products run on powerful and scalable servers including Apple Computer Mac OS X, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX, SGI IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. , Sun Solaris, and Linux on Pentium based systems. HELIOS products provide reliable cross-platform support for Macintosh, DOS/Windows and UNIX-based clients. Distributors sell HELIOS products worldwide to value-added resellers who provide complete networking solutions to customers. HELIOS software products are also available as part of OEM solutions by many major vendors in the prepress industry. For U.S. Sales European MikroGraf Corp.: 916-923-3520; sales@ugraf.com; http://www.ugraf.com For Canadian Sales PreSource Corp.: 613-821-0832; sales@presource.net; http://www.presource.net For further editor information, please contact: HELIOS Software GmbH, Attn: marketing, Steinriede 3, D-30827 Garbsen, Germany; Fax +49 5131-709325; E-mail: marketing@helios.de; or Web access at http://www.helios.com. |
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