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12-14 Chapter 12 Managing Printers and Documents
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3. In the Available Port Types list, click Local Port, and then click the New Port button.
4. In the Port Name dialog box, in the Enter A Port Name text box, type the Universal
Naming Convention (UNC) name for the printer to which you are redirecting documents
(for example, \\prntsrv6\HPCLJ4550), as shown in Figure 12-5.
Figure 12-5 Redirect documents to another printer so users do not have to print again.
5. Click OK to accept the change and close the Port Name dialog box.
6. Click Close to close the Printer Ports dialog box.
7. Click OK to close the printer’s Properties dialog box.
If another printer is available for the current print server, you can redirect the documents
to that printer. To redirect documents to another local or network printer that
uses the same printer driver, select the appropriate port on the print server and cancel
the selection of the current port.
Exam Tip Remember that you can redirect all documents for a printer, but not individual
documents. Also, the new printer must use the same printer driver as the current printer.
Formats Supported by the WinPrint Print Processor
The print processor is software that is responsible for processing print documents into
a format that is suitable to be sent to the printer, and Windows XP contains only the Win-
Print processor by default. The default print processor and data types are suitable for the
vast majority of printing, and you should not change them unless you have an application
that specifies the need for a different print processor or additional data type.
The WinPrint print processor supports the following formats:
RAW RAW is a common data type for clients other than Windows. When using the
RAW format, the spooler does not modify the print data; data is sent directly to the
printer for processing. There are two additional versions of RAW:
❑ RAW [FF appended] is the same as the RAW format, except that a form feed
character is appended to the end of each print job, which is necessary for certain
types of printers.
❑ RAW [FF auto] works like RAW [FF appended], except that the processor
checks to see if there is a form feed character at the end of a document and
if there is not one already, the processor adds one.