Professionals: Create a pool of printers with different priorities
Amateurs: Create only one printer
Printer Pools
The best practice is to have several printers or print queues leading to one physical print
device. The advantage is that you can set different priorities for
different users. For example: high
priority for mangers low priority for secretaries (or would that be better the
other way around!).
How to Setup Printer Pools
To create a Printer Pool:
Start Menu, Settings, Printer folder, add printer.
The trick is to create multiple
printers, each with a different priority.
To adjust the priority, go to the
Advanced Tab and look for the Priority box. Finally give different
permissions to the various printers.
Once Microsoft realised the power of the browser
they have made more and more interfaces browser compatible. Users can now
use their Internet Explorers to search for printers and install the appropriate
driver. Show the users this path: http://server/PRINTERS.
Note: Whilst server will vary dependent on the name
of your print server, PRINTERS should by typed as shown as there will be a share
called PRINTERS on each server.
Guy's Challenge - Download
this free device backup utility
(CatTools)
CatTools is a free program for backing up configuration settings on
hardware devices. Here is Guy's challenge. If you
download CatTools, then it will not only take care of backups, but
also it will show you something new about the hardware on you
network. I could give you a money back guarantee - but CatTools is
already free! Thus, I just make a techie to techie challenge, you
will learn more about your network if you:
