There are four types of printers
1. Local printer
2. Share printer
3. Network printer
4. Internet printing (Window
Server)
(1) Local Printer: If Printer is directly attached to a computer (either in
LPT port, Com port, or USB port) is
called Local printer.
Installation: Start
– Printer & Faxes – Add Printer – Select local printer -
Select port – Select manufacturer & Printer Model –
Printer Name (any) – Share Name – Location
(physical)(optional) - Finish
(2) Share Printer: If a Printer is attached to another computer & is
shared to other computers too is called share printer.
Installation:
Start – Printer & Faxes – Add Printer – Select “A
Network Printer” – Browse or “\\IP of print server\printer name (Name or IP) - Finish
Notes by Neeraj
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(3) Network Printer: If a printer is directly attached to a switch then it’s
called network printer. You have to install a network printer in any computer as a local
printer & in other computer as a share computer or we can also install as local printer in each computer.
Installation:
To install network printer you have to configure IP
address of Network Printer. To configure IP address of Printer there may be a keypad in Network Printer or you
can configure your printer through internet explorer (just type “//IP of printer” in IE.)
[IP address of the Network Printer will be given in
Printer Manual]
(4) Internet Printing: You can enable internet printing in “Windows Server
2003”.you can install. You can use your Web browser to connect to shared printers on a print
server that is running Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). Printing is implemented by way
of the Internet Print Protocol (IPP), which is encapsulated in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). By
typing the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a remote printer in the Address bar of your browser, you
can connect to, and print from the printer in the same way as if it were attached to your own computer. You can view a Web page on which all printers on a print
server are listed, or a page that is specific to the printer to which you want to connect.
To Enable Interne printing on server
Go to Control Panel – Add Remove Program – Add remove
windows component – Select Application Server –Details – Select IIS – Details – Check on Internet
Printing – Ok - Finish
Installing internet printer on client computer
Go to Printer & fax – Add Printer – Network Printer –
Select connect to a printer URL [http://IP of print server/Printers/Printer share name/printer]
Printer Pooling: If you have more than one printer of same manufacturer
& same model then you can enable printer pooling. If you are pooling in printers than make
sure that your all printer should be kept in the same location or else you will not able to find that which
printer has printed out you document.
Enable Printer Pooling
Go to Printer Properties – Ports – Check on Enable Printer
Pooling – Check both Printer Port – Ok
Priority: If
there is long waiting queue for print job & want to set priority to any
user then you can configure Printer priory. As soon as printer will finish the current
job it will take high priority printing job at 2nd instance.
Enable Printer Priority
Install a printer twice – Go to printer properties –
Advanced – Set priority
Spooling: (Simultaneous
Peripheral Operations On-Line) the overlapping of low-speed operations with
normal processing. Spooling originated with mainframes in order
to optimize slow operations such as reading cards and printing. Card input was read onto disk and printer
output was stored on disk. In that way, the business data processing was performed at high speed, receiving
input from disk and sending output to disk. Subsequently, spooling is used to buffer data for the
printer as well as remote batch terminals.
Note:
Administrator can also manage internet printer through Internet Explorer
[http://IP of print Server/printers]
