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Difficulty: MediumMultifunction Devices and Printer Configuration

A network administrator needs to optimize printing for a busy department by distributing incoming jobs across three identical physical network printers using a single print queue. The goal is to ensure that if one printer is busy processing a job, the next job in the queue is automatically sent to an available printer. Which feature must the administrator enable on the central print server to accomplish this configuration?

  1. Printer pooling on the print server port propertiesAnswer
  2. B
    Round-robin DNS records for the shared printer hostname
  3. C
    Duplex printing and direct-to-printer spooling settings
  4. D
    PostScript driver virtualization on the network interface card

Answer

The administrator must enable printer pooling on the print server port properties.
Printer pooling is a feature on print servers that allows one logical printer to represent multiple identical physical printers connected to different ports. The print server automatically routes incoming jobs to the first available printer in the pool.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the goal of distributing print jobs across multiple identical physical printers under a single print queue.
Recognize that a load-balancing mechanism at the print server level is required.
Users should only need to submit jobs to one logical printer queue.
2
Evaluate Windows Print Server configuration options for managing multiple physical ports under one queue.
Selecting 'Enable printer pooling' on the Ports tab of Printer Properties allows checking multiple standard TCP/IP ports.
Printer pooling automatically assigns incoming jobs to whichever printer connected to the pooled ports is currently idle.

Key Concept

Printer Pooling Configuration
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Multifunction Devices and Printer Configuration

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