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From Wsms
Wednesday September 27, 2006
Printing - Chapter 11 Setting Up, Configuring, and Troubleshooting Printers
See the "Windows Printer Terminology" handout on webct. Note that a printer with a network interface can be set up with a print server, so that the workstations in the network connect to it as though it was a local printer connected to that printer.
Jolean(sp?) Lee - Our attendance goddess.
Windows XP can support a maximum of ten simultaneous connections. File sharing, printer, web server connections all count for the total of ten. This may limit the utility of XP as a print server in a larger workgroup. For server product there are two ways to get licenses 1. With say 100 licenses. This might be OK for medium-sized businesses. 2. With per-seat licensing.
Design considerations include the need for reliablility. For example, a travel agent in the old days would require absolutely reliable printing.
Class exercise, Joe is adding a local printer to his XP machine. Then he will share it and make a network printer available to the other workstations. History: The earliest connection was the 25-pin printer port connection. In 1980 it was output only. In 1985 it was made bi-directional. And, the 100MB zip drive with the parallel port interface was introduced. Another connection was the 25 pin or 9 pin serial or COM ports. The serial ports were used for printers sometimes, but we mostly used for modems. Newer printers connect by USB or through a network cable.
For printers with network connections, the printer must have a unique IP address. Joe went through adding a printer. Local Printer attached to this computer. For port he clicks on Create a new port and Standard TCP/IP Port This opens the "Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard" Then he puts in the IP address for the printer. 10.101.10.200 Thne the new wizard closes Then he selects a printer driver in the Add Printer Wizard. It is an HP 4050N or something. He chose the PCL6 version of the driver.
Then Joe showe how to add the printer as a network interface printer. First he turns on sharing for his printer. He could have added drivers to support other Windows version. Right click on the icon for the printer, click sharing. Turn on "Share the printer" Start, Printers and Other Hardware, Printers and Faxes,
We all logged on to the ws00 print server as the Administrator user. That gave us the power to administer the printer through by right clicking on the ICON for the printer in our "Printers and Faxes" dialog.
Implications: Nobody can print if ws00 gets turned off. ws00 needs enough disk space to hold the data for the print que this could add up to a lot of disk space if everyone is printing graphics.
Even if the printer has a network connection, it is better to have the printer administered from a server. This avoids problems with print ques and other administrivia and lets you do printer pooling.
P 11-10 Real World Plug and Play Printers
Joe says that the printing should only be for thing related to this class. We need to ask Joe prior to printing.
Then we removed the network printer from ws00 and added a network printer with HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL6.
Exam tip: How to handle printer priorities? This is kind of the oposite of a printer pool. One logical printer associated with more than one physical printers is a printer pool. More than one logical printer associated with a single physical printer can be used to control priorities. All you have to do is set the Priority of the Advanced tab of the Printer properties dialog. The higher Priority will go first. i.e. 99 is the highest priority, 1 is the lowest.
Joe showed how to apply the pcl.sep separator page.
The default location for the print spool is something like C:\windows\system32\spool\printers You may want to move it to another volume by using a linked volume as discussed a day or two ago. You can also change it from "Printers and Faxes", File, Server Settings, "Print Server Properties", Advanced tab, Spool folder.
The "Print Server Properties" also allows you to set options for logging. If you set up IIS and have added the correct modules, you can administer the printer through a browser provided the printer is shared. Point your web browser to http://localhost/printers/
Chapter 13 Supporting TCP/IP
Joe gave a big lecture on ip addresses, subnet masks, gateways, DNS, etc. The information is available from many sources.
I suggest a MS technet article you can find by goggling site:microsoft.com TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows For a Linux perspective you can check http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NET3-4-HOWTO.html
