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Print Services
Objectives
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Understand Print Server terms and concepts
Understand how printing works
Print Server Considerations
Printer Hardware Considerations
Install Print Server
Install Local Printer
Install Network Connected Printer
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Connection to a Shared Printer at Client
Deploying Printers using Group Policies
Using the Rundll32 command to deploy printers
Point and Print Functionality
Use Print Management to Manage multiple print
servers
• Use Print Management to move printers and their
queues
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Print Server
• A device which manages communication between the
printer and the print clients
• In most cases a printer server is a computer running the
Windows OS
• Windows OS functioning as Print Server provides many
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Provides drivers to clients
Stores documents that are spooled for printing
Maintains associated print queue
Provides security and auditing of printer access
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How Printing Works
• Two main data types for print drivers
• Enhanced metafile format (EMF)
• Uses Printer Control Language (PCL)
• EMF documents are sent to print server with minimal
processing and then further processed on the print server
• RAW
• RAW is most commonly used with PostScript page description
language.
• RAW documents are fully processed on client before being
sent to print server and aren’t modified by print server
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Standard EMF Printing Process
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Standard RAW Printing Process
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Sizing Print Server Hardware and
Optimizing Configuration
• Configuration considerations of Print Server:
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Operating System
CPU
RAM
Disk Space
Network Card Speed
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Sizing Print Server Hardware and
Optimizing Configuration
• Hardware Considerations for Printer
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Type
RAM
Paper or Envelope Trays
Duplexers
Internal Hard Drive
Photo Printing
Large format printing
Direct attached vs network attached
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