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by fonaset

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I am running a home network with four computers which comprises of win 2000 server that the printer is attached to. others are winme and win2000 professional. I have problem setting up printer priority with win2000 server. What should I do in order for this printer priority to be effective.

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by rick

1) You have to associate two logical printers with the one physical printer.
2) Set the prioriry of the printer by printer-properties-advanced Priority.

The higher the number the higher the priority.

ie Printer A priority 1, Printer B
Priority 99

Set the computers you want to print with the low priority to printer A,
and the computers you want high priority to printer b.

When two print jobs are sent at the same time the one sent to the high priority printer will be printed first.

I hope this helps.

by fonaset

In this case, I am only using one printr. Could you please limit your answer to only one printer.Thanks

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