Printer Pools under Windows NTLast reviewed: May 14, 1997Article ID: Q112991 |
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SUMMARYWindows NT allows you to create a pool of printing devices on a print server and make them appear as one printing device. This type of setup might be used in a high-volume environment where it is not practical to have to wait long periods of time for an individual print job. Keep in mind that under Windows NT, a printer is a software interface between an application and a printing device, and the instrument that prints is referred to as a printing device.
MORE INFORMATIONWhen a printer pool is created, multiple printing devices are connected to a single print server and behave as a single printing device. When a document is printed by a user, the first available printing device in the printer pool prints the job. The printing devices in the pool should be identical to ensure printing consistency. To create a printer pool:
A printer pool is most useful if all of the printing devices are in the same geographic location. If the user has to wander around from location to location to find a print job, a printer pool is probably not a good use of available resources. Because the user never knows which printing device in the pool will print a particular job, it does not make sense to have different types or models of printers pooled together. Even something as simple as a different default print tray or less RAM in one printing device in the pool may have adverse effects on a particular print job. When you define a printer pool, it is best to define the fastest printing device first because the print spooler checks the available sources in the order they were created.
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