Can I force local spooling with network printers?

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Caine Chow

Greetings,

I am setting up a windows 2003 print server in our office and would like
all print jobs to be spooled locally at the workstation before being
sent to the print server. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the setting
to do this. I can set the printer to "Spool print documents so program
finishes printing faster" but this turns out to mean "spool documents at
the SERVER so program finishes printing faster."

Is there a setting or a windows security policy that will allow me to
ensure that the documents will spool locally at the workstation?

Thanks,

C
 
Uncheck Enable advanced printing features

this will force GDI rendering on the client. For some printers that use a
custom print processor, you may lose collation and booklet printing.

This setting will allow faster job processing through the server



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Alan,

Thanks for your response.

I tried un-checking "advanced printing features" from the Advanced tab f
setting and found that it resulted in no spool file on the local
workstation. I am watching the default spooler directory
(C:\Windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS) while printing and there aren't any
..SPL or .SHD files created when printing to a network printer shared
from my print server. I would like to always have the .SPL and .SHD
files generated on the client.

Are there any other settings on the server that I might try?

Caine
 
No, you will need to add the printers locally on each client if this is what
you want. Create a Local Port using \\printserver\printshare as the name of
the port. Make sure you use the same driver or you can easily send the
wrong data format to the printer since the server will just pass it along to
the device.

--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
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http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

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