This new printing system offers a special feature we at COMPAREX call Virtual Print Technology. VPT allows a customer the greatest flexibility in printer setups, especially in the UNIX environment. The administrator may define up to 64 virtual printers on this machine, each of which appears as a physical printer to the LAN-user. Each logical printer may have its own typical name, its specific input hoppers, its special print format (landscape or portrait) or emulation PCL or PostScript. Whenever some special handling at the printer is required, however the application does not send the appropriate commands in the datastream, VPT comes into play.