Managing Printers

In this post Ill describe the printer management and print document management options

In this post Ill describe the printer management and print document management options. To manage a printer and print documents follow the following steps:

Go to Control Panel, Printer and Faxes, Right Click the printer you want to manage. Now you can see management option from the pop-up menu. Select the appropriate option for the area you want to manage.

See the table below for description of each option.

Option	Option Description
Set as Default Printer	Specifies the default printer that will be used when the user does not send a job to an explicit printer
Printing Preferences	Brings up the Printing Preferences dialog box, which allows you to configure printer settings for page layout and paper quality.
Pause Printing	While a printer is paused, print jobs can be submitted to the printer, but they will not be forwarded to the print device until you resume printing (by unchecking this option)
Sharing	Use this option to share the printer
Use Printer Offline	Pauses the printer. Print documents will remain in the print queue, even if you restart the computer
Create Shortcut	Allows you to create a shortcut for the printer, which would typically be placed on the desktop.
Delete	Removes the printer. You might use this option if you no longer need the printer.
Rename	Allows you to rename the printer.
Properties	Allows you to manage the properties of a printer