1. Novell iPrint Deployment Strategies
Dale Bethers
Software Engineer Consultant Novell, Inc.

2. Agenda What is iPrint? Planning iPrint deployment
Novell BrainShare 2002
Agenda
What is iPrint?
Planning iPrint deployment
Installing iPrint system components
Deploying the iPrint client and printers
TUT265—Novell iPrint Deployment Strategies

3. Vision…one Net Mission
A world where networks of all types—corporate and public, intranets, extranets, and the Internet—work together as one Net and securely connect employees, customers, suppliers, and partners across organizational boundaries
Mission
To solve complex business and technical challenges with Net business solutions that enable people, processes, and systems to work together and our customers to profit from the opportunities of a networked world

5. What Is iPrint?
iPrint extends traditional network printing into the Internet, giving anytime, anywhere access to users and administrators

6. What Is iPrint? Built on Novell Distributed Print Services™ (NDPS®)
Added support for Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
New Novell print client
Web accessibility features
Built on Novell Distributed Print Services™ (NDPS®)
Added support for Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
New Novell print client
Web accessibility features

7. What Is iPrint? Added Support for IPP
Printer agent
NDPS
Printer
gateways
LPR
IPP
QMS

8. What Is iPrint? Built on NDPS
Added support for Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
New Novell print client
Web accessibility features

9. What Is iPrint? New Novell Print Client
Uses IPP protocol (Internet standard based on HTTP)
Supports SSL
Small footprint on client
Installable from web
Not dependent on Client32™
Persistent and non-persistent printers

10. What Is iPrint? New Novell Print Client
Automatic install of client updates
Enhanced support for printer default (i.e., paper size)
Automatic driver download

11. What Is iPrint? Built on NDPS
Added support for Internet Printing Protocol (IPP)
New Novell print client
Web accessibility features

12. What Is iPrint? Web Accessibility Features
Install print client from web browser
Install printers from web browser
iPrint default web page
Custom web pages with maps, floor plans
Company portal
Commercial printing sites
Manage printers/print system from web browser
Map design tool

13. What Is iPrint? iPrint enables… Printing from applications
To printers across the hall or around the world
With confidentiality
Through private or public networks
With guaranteed fidelity
Managing printers
On the local network or in branch offices
From home
On the road

14. Other iPrint Sessions
For more information on features and benefits of iPrint, see session IO105
Tuesday 12:00 noon—Ballroom E
Thursday 1:30 pm—Ballroom I
Friday 3:15 pm—Ballroom E

15. Agenda Installing iPrint system components What is iPrint?
Planning iPrint deployment
Installing iPrint system components
Deploying the iPrint client and printers

16. Planning iPrint Deployment
Options to consider
Clustering
Distributed vs. centralized
Internet access to printers, secure printing (SSL)
Works great with Novell NetWare® 4
Number of printers per server
Strongly recommended options
DNS

17. How Many Printers Per Server?
A 550 Mhz Pentium III server hosting iPrint can process 1,440,000,000,000 bytes of data a month printing eight hours a day 20 days a month
Assuming Novell Corp. Tree
Continuous printing during business hours
Printer duty cycle: 150,000 pages/month (80 KB)
100 KB/page (100 KB/job)
Approximately 100 printers per server
7,500 pages/printer/day (50 pages)
(15,000 printers)

18. Other iPrint Sessions
For more information on performance factors and configuration, see session TUT205
Tuesday 4:30 pm—Ballroom J
Wednesday 2:15 pm—Ballroom J

19. Planning iPrint Deployment

20. Planning iPrint Deployment
Novell IS&T example
Fact
It’s more efficient and less prone to problems if the network information (queues, Novell eDirectory™ object information) that iPrint needs can be resolved on the local server
Problem
Place replicas of all partitions that have objects referenced by iPrint (user, printer, NDPS manager) and queues on a single server
Solution
Separate print tree (single eDirectory partition, one server)
iPrint objects are created in the print tree
Use Novell DirXML™ to synchronize users from corporate tree into the print tree

21. Agenda Installing iPrint system components What is iPrint?
Planning iPrint deployment
Installing iPrint system components
Deploying the iPrint client and printers

22. Installing and Configuring iPrint System Components
If you have already deployed NDPS, you are only a couple of mouse clicks away from iPrint

23. Installing and Configuring iPrint System Components (cont.)
Required
Install iPrint
Create server components (broker, manager, printer)
Enable iPrint access to printer (done automatically on new printers in SP1)
Optional
Customize web pages for printing

24. Installing and Configuring iPrint System Components (cont.)
System installation
iPrint not selected by default
If secure printing is desired, iPrint needs port 443

25. Installing server components
NDPS broker
NDPS manager
Printer agents
Default web page

26. iManage iPrint Object Creation
Create broker, NDPS manager, and printer objects

27. Enable iPrint Access to Printer
Enable IPP access to the printer
“Require SSL” enables SLP encryption on printer

28. Default View (Automatically Generated)
Novell BrainShare 2002
Default View (Automatically Generated)
Printer install URL =
Install printer
Install Novell
IPP client
TUT265—Novell iPrint Deployment Strategies

29. Agenda Installing iPrint system components What is iPrint?
Planning iPrint deployment
Installing iPrint system components
Deploying the iPrint client and printers

30. Deploying the iPrint Client and Printers
Web pages
Automatically generated web page
Custom location based web pages (automatic check for client)
Company portal
Novell ZENworks®
Automatic client updates
Custom applications (visual basic)

31. Leveraging the default page in custom solutions
Creating a map-based web page

32. Sample Leveraging Default View (Using Frames)

33. iPrint Map Design Tool/Location-Based Printing
Novell BrainShare 2002
iPrint Map Design Tool/Location-Based Printing
Manipulation of printers on a map
Browser-based
Show building/ site maps
Drag and drop printers to location on map
Edit printer configuration parameters
Edit background graphics
TUT265—Novell iPrint Deployment Strategies

34. Example Created with Map Tool

35. Other iPrint Sessions
For more information on custom web pages and the map design tool, see session TUT208
Tuesday 4:30 pm—Room 260
Friday 1:45 pm—251E

36. Benefits of iPrint Gives anytime, anywhere access to printing
Enables location-based printing
Empowers users to do simple tasks
Lowers printing management cost
High print quality fax replacement