Direct Printing

In Direct Printing, authentication, application of Print Rules, and other job processing are performed on the Delegation Server or the SLNX PC Client, but print jobs are immediately printed from a device and not held on the Delegation Server or the SLNX PC Client.

Direct Printing is convenient in an environment in which you want to keep using the print settings already configured in your host system, for example. Also, the print jobs are output without having to release them from the control panel of the device and there is no need to wait next to the device for printing to end while printing a large document.

Users can also print jobs without a user name or as a user alias in a case such as printing from UNIX or a mainframe.

There are two methods available when configuring Direct Print:

• Client Direct Print

• Device Direct Print

For an overview of the two methods, see Direct Print Method Comparison.

Topics:

• Print Rules

• Add a Printer

• Define a Shared Printer on a Delegation Server