Creating a printer pool
Windows allows you to create a printer pool, which is a printer with two or more print devices (that is, printer ports) available. Windows sends a given print job to any of the printers in the pool. This feature is useful in environments where users do a lot of printing and need the speed that additional printers can provide, without having to ask the user to choose a specific print device to use.
There are no PowerShell cmdlets to enable you to create a printer pool. Also, WMI does not provide a mechanism to create a printer pool. As with other recipes in this chapter, you make use of PrintUI.DLL and RunDLL32 to deploy a printer pool. This is another example of utilizing older console applications to achieve your objective. ...
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