Print Delivery Station
The role of the Print Delivery Station (PDS) is to provide a bridge between the PrinterOn delivery infrastructure and the physical printer or print queue. PDS communication is based on the IPP specification and provides extensions to the protocol for advanced functionality, such as encryption.
📘 Instructions
The simplest description of PDS is an IPP print server that supports various connection protocols to printers or print queues.
IPP is based on HTTP and uses custom HTTP headers for metadata delivery and a structured binary body to deliver print data.
PDS implements an IPP listener to receive print jobs from PrintWhere.
Print jobs received by PDS can be delivered to their destination automatically or manually, based on the PrinterOn configuration.
The process of receiving jobs and delivering them to their destination remains the same regardless of whether PDS is configured to hold for user input before delivering them to their destination.
For more information on adding and configuring PDS settings, see Managing and configuring Print Delivery Stations (PDS).