 | Adding a Network Printer |
A network printer is a hardware device that is connected directly to the network. A print server can access the network printer without actually being connected to it with a cable. The network printer has its own system name and IP address.
You should always set up a print server for each network printer so that print clients submit print jobs through the print server to the network printer.
NOTE
Although you could configure every single system as a print server for a network printer so each system could submit print jobs directly, in practice, these printers tend to lock up or act strangely if you configure more than 16 ...
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