LEXMARK UNVEILS NEXT GENERATION OF NETWORK PRINTER MANAGEMENT; MarkVision Support Expands to More Than 30 Network Environments.GREENWICH, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 1995--Lexmark International Inc. today announced the next generation of MarkVision, the company's industry-leading network printer management tool. The new release includes extensive enhancements and expands network support to a total of more than 30 environments. The new MarkVision release supports Lexmark's Optra family, 4039 plus family and Color Jetprinter 4079 plus printers and is immediately available. Today's announcement further strengthens Lexmark's technological leadership in network printer management and represents an ongoing step in strategic relationships between Lexmark and major networking companies such as 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) , Microsoft and Novell. With the new version of MarkVision, users and network administrators gain additional technology to help them manage their network printers remotely, including paging services, Remote Operator Panel (ROP (1) (Raster Operation) An instruction that manipulates the bits of a bitmapped image in some manner. (2) (RISC Operation) An instruction in a RISC processor. ) and remote attachments to the network via TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. . These enhancements include: -- New Environments. Among the 30-plus network environments MarkVision support are Microsoft's NT Server (NTS NTS National Technical Systems NTS National Trust for Scotland NTS Nevada Test Site NTS NT Server (Microsoft Windows) nts Not the Same NTS National Traffic System (amateur radio) ) and LAN Manager (1) A network operating system from Microsoft that runs as a server application under OS/2. It supports DOS, Windows and OS/2 clients. LAN Manager was superseded by Windows NT Server, and many parts of LAN Manager are used in Windows NT and 2000. See LAN Server. , IBM's OS/2 LAN Server (1) A network operating system from IBM that runs as a server application under OS/2 and supports DOS, Windows and OS/2 clients. Originally based on LAN Manager when OS/2 was jointly developed by IBM and Microsoft, starting with LAN Server 3. , Novell NetWare, Apple Macintosh and more than nine different UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). host systems. -- MarkVision for Windows IP. MarkVision now supports the IP protocol from Windows and Windows for Workgroups A version of Windows 3.1 introduced in 1992 that added peer-to-peer networking. See Windows. (operating system) Windows for Workgroups - (WFW, WFWG) A version of Windows 3.1 which works with a network. Although stand-alone 3. versions 3.1 and 3.11 client workstations. This enables MarkVision for Windows to communicate via TCP/IP directly to a Lexmark Optra, 4039 plus or Color Jetprinter 4079 plus printer with a MarkNet XL Internal Network Adapter (INA Ina (ē`nä), city (1990 pop. 60,062), Nagano prefecture, central Honshu, Japan, on the Tenryu River. It is an agricultural and industrial center with a famous agricultural school. ) or the MarkNet XLe External Network Adapter (ENA ENA Ecole Nationale d'Administration (French) ENA Emergency Nurses Association ENA Energy Networks Association (Australia) ENA Ethiopian News Agency ENA Energetic Neutral Atom ). In addition, with this function network managers can now dial into the network and manage their printers remotely. -- Paging Services. Lexmark brings pager notification services to MarkVision for Windows later this year with PageNet and Fourth Wave Software, allowing users to send status alerts to LAN managers while away from their consoles. -- MarkVision for UNIX. The new MarkVision for UNIX supports more than nine UNIX environments. MarkVision for UNIX allows network administrators operatinging in a UNIX TCP/IP environment to have advanced network printer management capabilities similar to those provided by the MarkVision for Windows application. -- Remote Operator Panel. With the Remote Operator Panel (ROP), MarkVision enables network administrators to view the complete printer operator panel remotely from their workstation and configure the printer by "pushing the operator panel buttons" just as though they were standing at the printer. -- OS/2 Warp and LAN Server 4.0. With the new Network PrinterPak for OS/2 Warp and LAN Server 4.0, OS/2 users can now take advantage of the latest instrumentation and bi-directional technologies implemented in network and personal printers. The OS/2 Network PrinterPak, available through Lexmark and IBM, includes the ROP and the Lexmark Network Printer Utility for easy installation of printers on the network. Additionally, Lexmark will provide an OS/2 Presentation Manager version of MarkVision later this year. -- Automated installation/driver update. MarkVision now supports an automated network installation, allowing for automatic driver updates and improved printing management. In "Quiet Mode," MarkVision automatically installs updated printer drivers. -- MarkVision for Macintosh. MarkVision for Macintosh provides advanced printer management capabilities for AppleTalk printers connected in an EtherTalk, TokenTalk or LocalTalk environments. In addition, for the 4079 plus, and 4039 plus and Optra families, MarkVision for Macintosh provides ROP and smart printer icons. -- Enhanced user interface. The network printer smart icons in MarkVision now contain the server and queue name. This makes it easier to identify the specific network attached printer. -- Job Statistics. A job accounting macro for Lotus 123 and Microsoft Excel is now available to assist in analyzing MarkVision job statistics. The job statistics feature has been extended to the MarkVision for Macintosh environment as well. -- MarkVision for Novell's NDS See eDirectory. NDS - Netware Directory Services . MarkVision for NDS provides network printer management for Optra and 4039 plus families, and 4079 plus printers attached to Novell NetWare 4.x networks. Lexmark is the first network printer manufacturer to offer this level of printer status information and management to end users on the NDS environment. -- MarkVision integration with ManageWise. Lexmark is integrating MarkVision into ManageWise, a network management utility jointly developed by Novell and Intel. ManageWise provides a means of managing the entire Novell network. Now network administrators can launch MarkVision directly from the ManageWise console. By using ManageWise's graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ), MarkVision provides a simple and powerful means of managing all Lexmark network printers and print servers. In addition, Lexmark's support of the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) A widely used network monitoring and control protocol. Data are passed from SNMP agents, which are hardware and/or software processes reporting activity in each network device (hub, router, bridge, etc. ) over Novell's native protocol (IPX (Internetwork Packet EXchange) The network layer protocol in the NetWare operating system. Similar to the IP layer in TCP/IP, it contains a network address and allows messages to be routed to a different network or subnet. ) enables other SNMP-based management applications to manage Lexmark's print servers. Lexmark's current network printing products offer a broad range of compatibility for all leading operating system environments. Lexmark's Optra printer family supports 1,200 x 1,200 dpi printing and up to two MarkNet or MarkNet XL INAs with multiprotocol capabilities that support printing from more than 30 network environments including Novell NetWare, Microsoft Windows NTS, IBM OS/2 LAN Server, Banyan VINES and a full spectrum of UNIX environments. Lexmark International is an independent worldwide company that develops, manufactures and markets network and personal printers, typewriters, information processing supplies and keyboards. -0- Note to editors: Lexmark, MarkVision and MarkNet are trademarks of Lexmark International Inc. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. CONTACT: Lexmark International Inc., Lexington, Ky. Ken Bissell, 606/232-3035 or Network Associates Inc. Lisa Stein, 801/373-7888 |
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