6 GETTING TO KNOW THE M208: M208 Features
Print Server Features
General Features
• one high-speed, IEEE 1284-I compliant parallel port,
• four-speed parallel port to support any peripheral, slow or fast,
• two serial ports,
• multi-level configuration security through passwords and permission levels,
• SNMP support through MIB II, custom MIBs, and custom traps to aid in
network management,
• multiple printer destinations for printing flexibility,
• load-balancing so a job can be redirected to an idle printer instead of waiting for
a particular one to free up,
• the choice to disable selected Print Server services,
• extra printing functionality such as carriage return insertion to remove some of
the processing burden from the host,
• banner/trailer page generation,
• autosensing of job/file format for ASCII to PostScript conversion or for
automatic switching of the printer’s emulation mode,
• header and trailer strings to instruct printers in tray selection, font, pitch,
simplex/duplex, and other options,
• logging to keep track of job, user, page count, checksum, and printer error
information,
• TCP/IP syslog and SMTP (email) support for additional logging functionality,
• backchanneling for printers to send various PostScript messages about: print-job
status, paper out, paper jam, busy, toner out, etc. back through a serial port,
• queuing of all print jobs on LANs or WANs, while supporting up to four printers
simultaneously,
TCP/IP Features
• further configuration security through TCP access lists,
• scrambled print job data to protect the job as it passes over the network,
