print and document management

Printer

Driver for shared printer

If client’s OS uses the same driver as the print server, the client can automatically download the driver the first time the client connects to the printer. If a client’s OS requires a different driver from the print server, for example, server is 64-bit and client is 32-bit, you should add the additional driver on the server, so the client will automatically download the 32-bit driver.

From the sharing tab, click the Additional Drivers button and select the check box for the platform you want to support.
Or,
From Print management console, Print servers\drivers, add drivers.

“Render print jobs on client computers” allow clients to handle the processor-intensive rendering process.

Printer pooling
If you have two or more printers that use the same driver, you can create a printer pool. For example, you install the first printer through USB port and install the second printer through parallel port.

Open the properties of the first printer

Select “Enable printer pooling” and select LPT1 port and USB002 port

You have only one logical printer connected to two physical printers. You should share the first logical printer. The print jobs submitted to the printer pool will be printed to the first available printer in the pool. If you share the second printer, the client can only print to the single printer.

Typically, you should physically locate the printers next to each other. Any single print job will always print through a single printer.

Printer priority
Install the printer and name it printer1 and share it
Install the same printer again with the same port and name it printer2 and share it

Printer1 properties—Advanced tab, specify the priority, e.g. 99 for highest priority
Printer2 properties—Advanced tab, specify the priority, e.g. 1 for lowest priority

Connect the high priority users to the high priority printer. Although the higher-priority print jobs are always placed above lower-priority jobs in the print queue, after a print job begins printing, it cannot be interrupted. The high-priority job must wait for the printing job to complete.

Internet printing
http://<serverName>/Printers lists the printers shared by a server.
http://<serverName>/Printers/<printerName>/.printer is the URL for individual printer.

Install Print and Document Services role

Add a printer

If you choose the PostScript driver for the printer, you must install PostScript driver for other processor type (32 or 64).