LPD Input

Retrieves data using LPD/LPR. LPD/LPR is a printer protocol that uses TCP/IP to establish connections
between printers and workstations on a network. PlanetPress Design provides the LPD service for
Windows to receive print jobs through a TCP/IP network without requiring a Window’s driver.

General tab

• LPD queue name: Enter the queue name for the LPD server. This is the queue name you use when sending
  jobs through an LPR client.

LPD Input Options tab

• Log all Winsock and network messages: Select to have PlanetPress Design keep a log of all Winsock and
  other network messages that occur through the LPD service. These are messages related to jobs being sent
  from other systems through LPR, and being received by PlanetPress Design via LPD. Since these messages
  can accumulate, you have the option of not logging them. Logs are kept in a Log folder relative to your
  install folder. They are named lpddate.log, where date is the current date in the yyyymmdd numerical
  format.
• No source port range restriction (recommended): Select to remove any restrictions on the port of the
  LPR client computer that PlanetPress accepts data files from. Clear to have PlanetPress only accept data
  files sent from ports ranging between 721 and 731 on the LPR client computer.
• Strict RFC 1179 control file: Select to disable control file extensions the LPD service implements for some
  flavors of UNIX and LPR. This enforces the basic Line Printer Daemon protocol.
• Enable BSD compatibility mode: Select to have the LPD service emulate a BSD UNIX server. Although RFC
  1179 is supposed to describe the BSD LPD/LPR protocol, and the LPD input in PlanetPress Design is
  RFC1179-compliant, there are some incompatibilities between the RFC and the BSD implementation. This
  option compensates for some of these incompatibilities. If you are not sure about the source of your
  output, clear this option.
• Time-out: Set the time in seconds the PlanetPress Design process waits for the transfer of bytes in the data
  file before ending the transfer of this file. On a time-out, partially received data files are not passed to the
  rest of the process; the LPD input resets and is ready to receive further data files.