July 22, 2004

HP has a strong commitment to provide support for Novell products. With this commitment in mind, HP has been providing the HP IP/IPX Printer Gateway for NDPS (HP Gateway) to enable printing on Novell networks. However, after careful testing and evaluation, HP believes that the Novell SNMP Printer Gateway (Novell Gateway) is the preferred solution for enabling printing on Novell networks. Therefore, the HP Gateway product has been discontinued as of January 1, 2005 .

Customers are encouraged to migrate to the Novell Gateway as soon as possible . For information about migrating to the Novell Gateway, click here to go to the Novell support Web site . Search for NDPS Printer Agent Conversion Utility .

For a comparison of both printer gateways, click here to refer to HP's white paper, "Features of HP Gateway versus Novell Gateway" .

See Novell's Web site for documents about how to create the various types of NDPS printers using the Novell Gateway. There are also various deployment strategies depending on your particular NetWare network environment. For example, click here to go to Novell's support Web site and search for creating a public access printer .