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Printing to 2 different printers at the same time
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| John Wilson 2002-09-17, 3:18 am |
| Is it possable to print to 2 different printers at the same time?
Both printers are attached to the same computer
I want to click print & have the doc printed to both printers
Thanx.... | |
| NetChild1985 2002-09-17, 5:09 am |
| I think this can be done with printer pooling - one printer that is connected to multiple print devices through multiple ports on your PC. | |
| John Wilson 2002-09-17, 7:14 am |
| so how would I go about it?
Thanx | |
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| I'll try to research this out, but off the top of my head I do not know of a way to have a document print off of 2 seperate printers simultaneously.
Printer pooling is used to setup a "bank" of printers, but you do not have control over which printer in the pool the document will print off of.
I could be wrong however, does anyone else have a take on this. | |
| denis_baribeau 2002-09-17, 8:33 am |
| Your right Spid it's call print spooling.found this on a link.
If you have several identical printers, you can set them up as a pool, so that Windows 2000 will load balance the print jobs across them. To do this, connect the printers to your Windows 2000 machine (for instance, connect three printers to USB001, USB002 and USB003). Install the print driver for one of the printers. Then on the "Ports" tab of the print driver (Start, Settings, Printers, right-click the printer and choose Properties), check next to "Enable printer pooling." Then place a check mark next to the ports that are connected to the other printers (for example, USB001, USB002 and USB003). Windows 2000 will automatically handle allocating the print jobs across the pool.
Tip-within-a-tip: Place the printers in close proximity to each other. With network interface cards on printers (e.g.: HP JetDirect cards), you could potentially have printers from the same pool located in different parts of the same building. Since Windows 2000 automatically allocates the jobs to one printer or the other, however, there would be no telling which printer the job would print on, and that could lead users on a wild goose chase to find their printouts. On the other hand, that could be entertaining...
Does this mean that you will have to manualy split the job into smaller jobs???
300 pages split into 3 and the spool will send to 3 printers. 3 time faster . | |
| enforcer 2002-09-17, 9:10 am |
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Originally posted by denis_baribeau
Does this mean that you will have to manualy split the job into smaller jobs???
300 pages split into 3 and the spool will send to 3 printers. 3 time faster .
if you split the job yourself before you print then yes. but if you send a 300 page doc to a printer pool it will print all 300 pages on one printer. however if anyone else prints something, they won't have to wait for your print to finish, theirs will got to the first avail printer.
could you imagine a printer pool where a 300 page printout was printed across 3 printers evenly, think about one page to each printer, sort that out. | |
| denis_baribeau 2002-09-17, 1:28 pm |
| No what I was thinking about is when your printer selection come up it ask you for range and you could select 1-100 on the first job and 101-200 on next on 201-300 on the other and than walk to your printes and pickup 3 piles ,the heck with averyboby else.
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| TW2001 2002-09-17, 2:06 pm |
| What? | |
| denis_baribeau 2002-09-17, 4:25 pm |
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Originally posted by TW2001
What?
What what? | |
| ctrlaltdel 2002-09-17, 4:46 pm |
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Originally posted by denis_baribeau
No what I was thinking about is when your printer selection come up it ask you for range and you could select 1-100 on the first job and 101-200 on next on 201-300 on the other and than walk to your printes and pickup 3 piles ,the heck with averyboby else.
Thats how I would think it would be done, I how win2k would split the job up over 3 printers itself. It would be a good test though. Who's got a 300 pdf and lots of paper | |
| enforcer 2002-09-18, 3:12 am |
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Originally posted by denis_baribeau
What what?
2 what's, any more of this and we might have enough to power a lightbulb  | |
| John Wilson 2002-09-19, 2:18 am |
| Thanx for the answers but what I ment was to have the same doc print to 2 different printers so that I end up with 2 separate full docs
Sorry my fault I should have been more clear | |
| anthonie 2002-09-19, 3:52 am |
| Print the document twice, once each to a different printer. | |
| John Wilson 2002-09-19, 4:04 am |
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Originally posted by anthonie
Print the document twice, once each to a different printer.
I know but I don't want to do that everytime
& no it's not lazy | |
| enforcer 2002-09-19, 4:27 am |
| get a photocopier | |
| ctrlaltdel 2002-09-19, 6:24 am |
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Originally posted by John Wilson
I know but I don't want to do that everytime
& no it's not lazy
Now your asking too much, I see a BSOD coming | |
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