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Procedures for set up and configuring Windows printing subsystem.
Install Printers in Windows 9x
Plug
and Play
For
Plug and Play–compliant printers, all you need to do is plug the
printer cable into a port, make sure the printer is turned on, and
start Windows 9x. The printer reports its device ID to Windows 9x,
which searches INF files to find the ID that matches the values
reported by the printer. If an exact match is found, Windows 9x
automatically installs the correct printer support. If an exact
match is not found, but a compatible printer driver is found,
Windows 9x displays a dialog box showing that the printer was found
and that a compatible printer driver is available. You can then
provide a disk containing a Windows 9x printer driver that is an
exact match or ask Windows 9x to install the compatible driver it
has found.
Add
Printer Wizard
The
Add Printer Wizard leads you though the process of setting up and
configuring a printer. The only difference between installing a
network printer and a local printer with the Add Printer Wizard is
that you must specify the path to the network printer or browse to
find its network location.
Remote Installation Using Point and Print
Point
and Print allows users to install a printer over a network by
providing printer driver information. Users can point to the
printer, by using the Add Printer Wizard and browsing to or typing
the path of the print server. By typing the path of the print server
in the Run dialog box on the Start menu. By opening the print
server’s print queue using Network Neighborhood or Windows Explorer.
Vendors Disk
Yon
can also set up printers using the drivers supplied with the set up
disk, provided with the printer or downloaded from the vendors web
site.
Setting Default printer
Right-click the icon for the printer you want to use as the default
printer, and then click Set As Default. If there is a check mark
next to this command, the printer is set as the default printer.
Installing/Spool setting
Open printers folder, right-click a printer icon, and then click
Properties
Click the Details tab, and then click Spool Settings
Select Spool print jobs so program finishes printing faster, and
then click one of the following options
Click Start printing after last page is spooled if you want
the return-to-application time to be faster. This requires
more disk space and increases the total print time. The
second rendering does not start until the entire file is
written to the EMF file, decreasing the amount of work
performed on the computer as you print, but increasing the
disk space, because the entire file has to be written before
the second rendering starts.
Click Start Printing After Page Is Spooled if you want the
second rendering to take place simultaneously with the
writing of the EMF file. This reduces the total print time
and disk space required, but it increases the
return-to-application time.
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