Suggestions

Use a printer that is appropriate for your needs.

• Make sure laser, thermal transfer, and other advanced printers have NetWare print device definition (a .PDF file) available prior to purchase, unless one comes with the printer.

• If printing is frequent and if time and quality are paramount, a fast laser printer may be necessary.

• If you use PostScript or another high-level PDL for the majority of your print jobs, the speed of the printer's formatter becomes more important.

• If the mix of your print jobs contains mostly plain text, the speed of the print engine (as described in pages per second or characters per second) is of primary importance.

• Advanced printers, such as laser and thermal transfer printers, may require complex drivers to handle printer control information. Since software is now available to drive most of these printers, there should be no problem.