Print Management Guide - Internet printing
Internet printing provides a way to submit print jobs
to a printer across the Internet. For example, you can
send your company's new catalog directly to your publisher's
printer, providing you have your publisher's printer
name and the proper permission. You can also use this
technology with your local area network (LAN) or intranet.
- To install a printer from
the Internet you use the printer's URL as the name
of the printer. Administrators can also use the
URL format within an intranet.
- For a computer running a Windows
Server operating system and Windows client
to process print jobs that contain URLs, it must
be running Microsoft Internet Information Services
(IIS).
- Internet printing uses Internet
Printing Protocol (IPP) as its low-level protocol,
which is encapsulated within HTTP, using it as a
carrier. When accessing a printer through a browser,
the system first attempts to connect using RPC (on
Intranets and LANs), which is fast and efficient.
- Print server security is provided
by IIS. To support all browsers and all Internet
clients, the administrator must choose basic authentication.
Alternatively, the administrator can use Microsoft
challenge/response or Kerberos authentication, both
of which are supported by Microsoft Internet Explorer.
- You can manage printers from any browser, but you must use Internet Explorer version 4.0 or higher to be able to connect to a printer using a browser.