Xerox Paris, a document system Support & Software User Guide
The Paris Spooler Technical Manual
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Printers that have been defined in the Spooler can be grouped into a ‘pool’. Placing
individual printers into a pool is an effective way of increasing control of the
printing function to the Spooler.
individual printers into a pool is an effective way of increasing control of the
printing function to the Spooler.
For example, if your organization was using a number of high-speed printers as
well as a number of desktop printers, you could set up 2 printer pools.
well as a number of desktop printers, you could set up 2 printer pools.
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The first pool could be named ‘Production’ and contain the high-speed printers.
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The second pool could be named ‘Desktop’ and contain the low-speed printers.
In this way, jobs can be directed more simply, that is, all big jobs to the
‘Production’ pool and all small jobs to the ‘Desktop’ pool.
‘Production’ pool and all small jobs to the ‘Desktop’ pool.
Once added, a printer pool is displayed in the Spooler control panel in the same
way that an individual printer is displayed, i.e. Printer/Pool Name, Status, Jobs,
Printer type, etc.
way that an individual printer is displayed, i.e. Printer/Pool Name, Status, Jobs,
Printer type, etc.