CNIT 242 CORE MAIN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SET A+
✔✔TEXT job format - ✔✔Can be used for ASCII text and the printer sever will add a CR
to the end of each line
✔✔Benefits of RAW - ✔✔No port limits
No timeout
Bi-directional
More lenient regarding job size
✔✔CUPS - ✔✔Common unix printing system
Protocol for printing in linux
✔✔Included in CUPS - ✔✔spooler
scheduler
converter
backend connectivity to print devices
✔✔PDL - ✔✔Programming language used to describe the print job to the printer
Page Description Languages
✔✔Two basic PDLs - ✔✔PCL
Postscript
✔✔PCL - ✔✔Printer Command Language
Simple, efficient, lightweight
Became standard for inkjet printing
Less tolerant of errors than postscript
, ✔✔Postscript - ✔✔Basis for PDF files
Treats everything including text, as raster images
✔✔Postscript allows - ✔✔allows for proportional scaling, rotating
Slow for fonts because of text to raster
✔✔Postscript is considered... - ✔✔to be own programming language
✔✔Job path components on client side - ✔✔Application
GDI
Printer Driver
Client Spooler
✔✔Application - ✔✔program generating the print job
✔✔GDI - ✔✔provides services to the print driver
calls the proper print driver based on type of printer needed and data typed used
✔✔Printer driver - ✔✔Takes data supplied by the GUI and generate output based on
the printer device characteristics
✔✔Client spooler - ✔✔Processes and sends print jobs to the printer server
✔✔Job path components server side - ✔✔print spooler service
Print router
Local print provider
Print Monitor
✔✔Print Spooler Service - ✔✔handles scheduling received print jobs
responsible for locating the print driver and spooling high level function calls
✔✔Print router - ✔✔Determines which print provider to send print jobs to based on
information provided with the print job
✔✔Local print provider - ✔✔provides job control and printer management capabilities
✔✔Print monitor - ✔✔sends print jobs to printers attached to local and remote ports
Also enables bi-directional communication between the printer and the client
✔✔Distributed File System (DFS) - ✔✔has two parts
SET A+
✔✔TEXT job format - ✔✔Can be used for ASCII text and the printer sever will add a CR
to the end of each line
✔✔Benefits of RAW - ✔✔No port limits
No timeout
Bi-directional
More lenient regarding job size
✔✔CUPS - ✔✔Common unix printing system
Protocol for printing in linux
✔✔Included in CUPS - ✔✔spooler
scheduler
converter
backend connectivity to print devices
✔✔PDL - ✔✔Programming language used to describe the print job to the printer
Page Description Languages
✔✔Two basic PDLs - ✔✔PCL
Postscript
✔✔PCL - ✔✔Printer Command Language
Simple, efficient, lightweight
Became standard for inkjet printing
Less tolerant of errors than postscript
, ✔✔Postscript - ✔✔Basis for PDF files
Treats everything including text, as raster images
✔✔Postscript allows - ✔✔allows for proportional scaling, rotating
Slow for fonts because of text to raster
✔✔Postscript is considered... - ✔✔to be own programming language
✔✔Job path components on client side - ✔✔Application
GDI
Printer Driver
Client Spooler
✔✔Application - ✔✔program generating the print job
✔✔GDI - ✔✔provides services to the print driver
calls the proper print driver based on type of printer needed and data typed used
✔✔Printer driver - ✔✔Takes data supplied by the GUI and generate output based on
the printer device characteristics
✔✔Client spooler - ✔✔Processes and sends print jobs to the printer server
✔✔Job path components server side - ✔✔print spooler service
Print router
Local print provider
Print Monitor
✔✔Print Spooler Service - ✔✔handles scheduling received print jobs
responsible for locating the print driver and spooling high level function calls
✔✔Print router - ✔✔Determines which print provider to send print jobs to based on
information provided with the print job
✔✔Local print provider - ✔✔provides job control and printer management capabilities
✔✔Print monitor - ✔✔sends print jobs to printers attached to local and remote ports
Also enables bi-directional communication between the printer and the client
✔✔Distributed File System (DFS) - ✔✔has two parts
