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An interface on a Windows network print client that works with a local software application, such as Microsoft Word, and a local printer driver to format a file to be sent to a local printer or network print server.
Graphics Device Interface (GDI)
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A specification supported by Windows Server 2003 that allows printer to be managed from a Web browser, and print jobs to be sent to a printer using the HTTP protocol.
Internet Printer Protocol (IPP)
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A printer, such as a laser printer, physically attached to a port on the local computer.
Local Print Device
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A printing device, such as a laser printer, connected to a print server through a network.
Network Print Device
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Client computer or application that generates a print job.
Print Client
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Files that contain information that Windows Server 2003 uses to convert raw print commands to a language that the printer understands.
Print Driver
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A stack of lineup of all requested print jobs waiting to be sent from the spooler to the printer.
Printer Queue
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The computer in which the printers and print drivers are located. This is usually where you set up and configure the shared printing system.
Print Server
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A configuration object in Windows Server 2003 that controls the connection to the print device.
Printer
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Security permissions that allow an administrator to control access to printer resources, in manner similar to NTFS permissions.
Printer Permissions
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Consists of a single printer that is connected to a number of print devices.
Printer Pool
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Configuring multiple printers to print to the same print device. One printer is then configured to print before any of the other printers by adjusting the priority setting from 1 (lowest priority) to 99 (highest priority).
Printer Priorities
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An Active Directory object that represents a link to or direct information on how to use or connect to the shared resource.
Published
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A data type often used for printing MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, and UNIX print files.
RAW
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In the Windows 95, 98, Me, NT, 2000, XP, and 2003 environment, a group of DLLs, information files, and programs that process print jobs for printing.
spooler
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A data type used for printing text files formatted using the ANSI standard that employs values between 0 and 255 to represent characters, numbers, and symbols.
TEXT
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A controller for the ActiveX scripting engines provided in both Windows-based and command-line versions.
Windows Script Host (WSH)
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