5.4 Managing Printers and Print Jobs

To manage printers, you manage the print queues that service those printers. DRA allows you to pause or resume, start, modify, stop, and view resource printers and published printers. DRA also lets you modify the properties and priorities of print jobs. To add or delete a printer, use the native Windows tools.

A print server is a computer on which one or more logical printers are installed. A logical printer is defined on the computer that has the printer device driver. A logical printer includes the print driver, print queue, and ports for a printer. The print server associates logical printers with printer devices.

A connected printer is defined on the computers from which documents are selected for printing. A connected printer is a connection to a print share on the network. Therefore, you can manage printers and print jobs through the associated computers.

A published printer is a printer published in Active Directory. A published printer can be a network printer that is not directly connected to a server or it can be a printer hosted by cluster server.