| Main centres: | 1-3 business days |
| Regional areas: | 3-4 business days |
| Remote areas: | 3-5 business days |
The HP Print Server Appliance 4250 is a state-of-the-art device for managing and monitoring printing over a network. It is a network device that has been designed to provide a quick and easy way to add print capacity without affecting the general purpose server. It has several distinct advantages over conventional network printing configurations which can result in improved performance in both printing and file access.
Microsoft domain security, also known as Microsoft Authentication and Authority, is a feature that allows administrators to easily authorize or restrict print administration and services to specific groups or users by using their existing user name and password of the Windows domain. An domain is a logical grouping of network servers and other computers that share a common security and user account for each user. Users log on to the domain, not to individual servers in the domain.
Installing printers on each client computer is required in order for clients to be able to print using the PSA. With the Microsoft Point and Print technology, printers are added to the PSA and associated with a factory-installed driver or a driver already associated with a printer. Clients can be easily set up with access to that printer and its driver without having to install the driver again.
In a typical network, general purpose servers manage both the printing tasks and the file/application serving. The PSA handles the spooling and network traffic associated with printing, reducing the workload on the general purpose server.
When printing takes place at remote offices or other locations distant from the servers, the speed of printing can be degraded. A PSA installed in a remote office can dramatically increase printing performance by eliminating the need for print requests to travel from the remote office to the central site and back to a remote office printer.
An additional benefit is that if general purpose file/application servers go down, remote office users can still print many jobs directly, using the PSA.
Operation and Management
Once the PSA is configured, virtually no management tasks are required. However, system administrators can monitor print activity, manage the printers, or alter the configuration of the PSA from anywhere on the network using the PSA's web-based graphical user interface and a supported browser, or by using Web Jetadmin.
Web Jetadmin plug-ins have been designed to configure and manage multiple PSAs. The Web Jetadmin plug-ins for PSA firmware version 2.4.x. are dependent on Web Jetadmin (version 7.2). The Web Jetadmin plug-ins provide LAN administrators and IT managers a single tool to manage their printing environment. The plug-ins provide the
following management capabilities for the PSA:• Automated migration of printers from Microsoft Windows servers
Product Description
• Automated migration of existing printer connections on Microsoft Windows clients
• Auto-discovery of PSAs
• Batch configuration of most settings
• Remote print path creation
• Remote management of printer drivers
• Central device status reporting
• Scheduled batch firmware upgrades
• Scheduled backup/restore of configuration settings
Main features of the PSA:
• Off-loads spooling from a UNIX or Windows NT server
• Easy installation
• Easy management
• Centralized management using Web Jetadmin
• Can be managed from any supported web browser on the network
• Virtually no management required once installed
• Supports APC uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) (simple or basic signaling protocol)
• Increases performance of general purpose servers
• Remote management using Web Jetadmin
• Supports SNMP v1, v2c, and v3
• Provides data privacy, data integrity, and server authentication using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and
• Transport Layer Security (TLS v1)
• Easy replication of configuration and printer drivers across PSAs
• Reduces network traffic
• Seamless integration into Microsoft networking environment (security, authentication, authorization, and active directory)
• Transparent to client users
• Easy to pre-configure before shipping to a remote office
• Web configuration interface
• Password security on the front panel and for the web interface
• Upgradable
• Front panel LCD display and keypad
• 10/100Base-TX Ethernet network interface
• Microsoft networking (SMB over IP)
• Support for native Microsoft client printing tools
• Compatible with Microsoft's Point and Print technology (automatic driver download from the PSA to clients)
• Windows Domain integration
• Line Printer Daemon (LPD) support for UNIX clients
• Compatibility with HP Print Servers
• The PSA will work with any HP print server with firmware version x.03 and above.
Any print server that supports LPD should work with the PSA. The proper LPD remote queue name for the print server might have to be known. Many print servers will work without specifying a remote queue name
