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11-30 Chapter 11 Setting Up, Configuring, and Troubleshooting Printers
Tip When you set up a printer pool, you should place the printers in the same physical area
so that users can easily locate their documents.
A printing pool has the following advantages:
■ In a network with a high volume of printing, it decreases the time that documents
wait on the print server.
■ It simplifies administration because you can administer multiple printers simultaneously.
After connecting the printers to the print server, you can create a printing pool by completing
the following steps:
1. Click Start, and then click Printers And Faxes.
2. In the Printers And Faxes window, right-click the printer icon and click Properties.
3. In the Properties dialog box for the printer, on the Ports tab, select the Enable
Printer Pooling check box.
4. Select the check box for each port to which a printer that you want to add to the
pool is connected, and then click OK.
How to Set Priorities Among Printers
Although creating a printer pool involves creating a single logical printer for multiple
printers, setting priorities involves creating multiple logical printers for a single printer.
The printer priority you set on each logical printer governs the order in which print
jobs are printed. For example, you could create a high-priority logical printer for some
users and a lower-priority logical printer for other users. All users would print to the
same printer, but some users would get to print first.
There are two things that you must do to set priorities among printers:
■ Add a printer and share it. Then add a second printer and point it to the same
physical printer or port. The port can be either a physical port on the print server
or a port that points to a network interface print device.
■ Set a different priority for each of the printers that is pointing to the physical printer
or hardware device. Have different groups of users print to different virtual printers,
or have users send different types of documents to different virtual printers.
For an example of printer priority, see Figure 11-10. User1 sends documents to a
printer with the lowest priority of 1, and User2 sends documents to a printer with the
highest priority of 99. In this example, User2’s documents always print before User1’s
documents.