Printing server adjustment skills

Installing a network printer is actually a very simple task. However, if you want to use it reasonably and print it over the network efficiently, it is not possible to make a few more careful and effort efforts, the printing server must also be properly "tuned ". To this end, the following sections will recommend some "tuning" management skills for printing servers. I believe these content can help you efficiently print the network!

1. Make good use of the print pool Function

When using a network printer, you may often hear complaints from print users because the waiting time is too long. You may delay your work because the network printing efficiency is too slow. In fact, you only need to make good use of the print pool function to avoid the above troubles, because this function can call all the physical printers on the printing server to work simultaneously, this is very helpful for handling networks with a large amount of information. After all, this function can effectively reduce the waiting time for printing users! Of course, the print pool function is not available if you want to enable it. First, you need to check whether several identical physical printers are connected to the printing server at the same time, whether the same print driver is installed on each printer. Of course, the interfaces used to connect to each physical printer on the printer Server do not have to be the same. For example, some can use the parallel port connection mode, you can also use the USB port connection mode.

When the print pool function is enabled, you can connect each physical printer of the same model to the print ports on the print server in sequence, install the same print driver for each physical printer in sequence.

Click Start, set, and printer and fax commands. On the displayed printer list page, select the target printer server and right-click it, click the "properties" option in the pop-up shortcut menu, and click the "Port" tab on the "Print Server property Settings" page that appears later. On the tab page shown in "1, select the ports with physical printers installed, select the Enable Printer pool check box at the bottom of the tab page, and click OK, in this way, the print pool function is officially enabled.

To facilitate other workstations in the LAN to use the print pool function for network printing, you also need to right-click the Print Server icon in the printer List window, then, right-click the pop-up menu and execute the "share" command. On the "share Settings" Page shown in 2, select the "share this printer" option, at the same time, enter the name of the print pool in the "Share Name" text box. For example, enter "network print pool" and click "OK, in this way, when other workstations in the LAN send a print task to the print pool in the future, the print pool system will cyclically check the printers that can be used in the print server, once a usable physical printer is found, the print pool system will automatically "Assign" the print task to the idle physical printer.

TIPS: when installing the print driver in the print pool, please install Microsoft certified drivers as much as possible. After all, the printing drivers provided by many printer manufacturers cannot be exactly compatible with Windows systems, in the future, when you call the unique print pool function of Microsoft, unexpected errors may occur.

2. cleverly connect to the printing server

When connecting multiple physical printers to the printer server, you should connect the printer with a larger printing memory and a higher printing speed to the first printing port of the printer server. For example, if the physical printer uses a USB printing port, the printer with a larger printing memory should be connected to the first USB port in the printing server. If the physical printer uses a parallel printing port, connect it to LPT1 first. Similarly, physical printers are connected to each port on the printer server in the order that the printing memory is large to small and the printing speed is slow, this ensures that the print task is sent to the fastest physical printer for fast printing before being sent to the slow physical printer.

3. cleverly change the cache position of the print pool

By default, the printing server system will receive various printing tasks in the order of receipt, save it to the "% systemroot % \ system32 \ spool \ printers" folder temporarily. Then, the print buffer pool will monitor the target printer and current printing work, to determine which idle printer is called for printing. If you want to change the cache position of the print pool, follow these steps:

Click Start, set, and printer and fax commands. On the displayed printer list page, select the target printer server, click the "file" menu item in the corresponding window, select the "server properties" command from the pop-up drop-down menu, and on the server property settings page that appears later, click the "advanced" tab to open the Advanced Tab page shown in 3.

On this tab, enter a new cache location, for example, E: \ printers. After specifying a new location, click "OK", and the cache position of the print pool is changed.

4. Expand the sharing scope of printing servers

Generally, the print server is installed in an operating system of Windows 2000 or later. If the client is also running Windows 2000 or later, these client users do not need to install the Network Printer Driver separately, but can directly access the Shared printing server. However, if the client uses Windows 98 or Windows Me, to use the Shared printing server, the client user must first install the print driver in the corresponding operating system. Is there a way to expand the sharing scope of the printing server so that clients with different operating systems can directly print the network without having to prepare the corresponding print driver? In fact, as long as you print the server's shared property settings page in advance, prepare the corresponding driver for clients with different systems in advance, in the future, these clients can download and install the corresponding print driver from the server. To achieve the above purpose, follow these steps:

Click Start, set, and printer and fax commands. On the displayed printer list page, select the target printer server and right-click it, right-click the pop-up menu and execute the "attribute" command. Then, click the "share" tab in the open attribute setting box.

On the shared tag page that appears later, click the "other drivers" button to open the setting window shown in 4. In this window, you can clearly know which types of printing drivers have been installed. If you want the Windows 98 or Windows Me client to directly obtain the driver from the print server, you can select the corresponding options and click "OK, the system will pop up a Printer Driver Installation Wizard window shown in figure 5, insert the print driver disk of the corresponding system according to the wizard prompts, and follow the prompts to complete the installation task step by step. Any Windows 98 or Windows Me workstation in the future does not need to install the print driver on the Shared printing server. Obviously, this will greatly improve the network printing efficiency.

5. Good Use of priority

If you want to grant print users with different permissions to different print priority levels, or want to grant a smaller print document a higher print priority than a larger print document, then you may want to install multiple identical physical printers on the print server, and then assign different print priorities to each physical printer on the print server's advanced Options settings page.