NetWare Print Services
Printing with NetWare can be implemented in a variety of ways. Traditionally, printers were defined on the server, and print queues were associated with those printers. In NetWare 6, a feature called Novell Distributed Print Services was introduced, which enables a more dynamic printing environment to be created. NetWare 6 also introduced a new feature called iPrint, which allows users to see graphical maps of the network and point and click to access network devices.
To access a printer on NetWare, clients capture the output that would normally be directed to a local printer port and send it to the network printer. In early versions of NetWare, this was a process performed by using a command-line utility, called capture. Today, the process has been hidden behind the graphical interface of the client software and is largely unnoticed.