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Setting up a print server

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by superman79

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I work in a library and one of our biggest problems is our printing. People print and they dont pick up their print jobs so we wind up throwing the paper away. Anyways I am trying to see if i can fix this by using Windows 2000. I have 28 win2k clients and two win2k servers. Without using the servers is there a way i can setup two of those clients to be print servers so that the others can connect to them? once connected can i queue the print jobs so when someone prints it doesnt print but stays in the queue until i tell it to print?Thank you for your answers. one more thing if you can give me an I dea on how to this it would help alot.

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by gmturner

Short answer: yes
Long answer: How to actually do it, depends on your setup. You can setup and share the printer on a client machine (install it, right-click and select properties, then sharing, and also set the security). Then the other clients would need to be setup to print to the shared printer on this machine.

As for having the print jobs paused by default, I'm not sure it will work, but you can right click the printer and select PAUSE PRINTER. I just did a quick test, and it let me send a print job to the "paused" printer queue. Then I could right-click the print job and tell that job to RESUME.

Hope this helps...

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