INSTALLING AN LPR PORT

4. Select the check box for each port to which a printer that you want to add to the

pool is connected, and then click OK.

How to Set Priorities Among Printers

Although creating a printer pool involves creating a single logical printer for multiple

printers, setting priorities involves creating multiple logical printers for a single printer.

The printer priority you set on each logical printer governs the order in which print

jobs are printed. For example, you could create a high-priority logical printer for some

users and a lower-priority logical printer for other users. All users would print to the

same printer, but some users would get to print first.

There are two things that you must do to set priorities among printers:

Add a printer and share it. Then add a second printer and point it to the same

physical printer or port. The port can be either a physical port on the print server

or a port that points to a network interface print device.

Set a different priority for each of the printers that is pointing to the physical printer

or hardware device. Have different groups of users print to different virtual printers,

or have users send different types of documents to different virtual printers.

For an example of printer priority, see Figure 11-10. User1 sends documents to a

printer with the lowest priority of 1, and User2 sends documents to a printer with the

highest priority of 99. In this example, User2’s documents always print before User1’s

documents.