Printer networking with ADS server and ip-enabled printer

[Emulex]

I would like to have my one network printer. It is a very expensive unit. It uses dhcp reservation to keep itself static on the network through the 2003 ADS servers.

One server is a printer server.

Users need to simply print to the printer and get the appropriate profile. without dallying around in the menu's or print preferences. thats too much. Color would be wasted.

Here's my idea:

Setup a few queues:
1. Color to tray 2
2. Color to tray 3
3. B&W to tray 2 or 3
4. B&W to tray 4
5. Color to manual input tray 1
6. B&W to manual input tray 1

This doesn't seem that hard, but i'm missing a step. It seems the ADS browse for printer says i have the printer on the client pc. The default settings get overridden which is not acceptable for 1-6 above.

It seems i may need to tackle this on the printer server?

Any suggestions?

all workstations are XP PRO SP2 , All servers are 2003 EE.

I'm probably missing the very obvious 🙂

 

[Fardringle]

Some print drivers won't allow you to do this (i.e. you can only have one copy installed on the machine), but if the driver software for your printer is written properly, you should just be able to create multiple "printers" on the server and configure the individual printers with the settings you want and give them an appropriate name, then direct them to the IP address of the physical print device. Then just connect to those individual print queues on the workstations that need to use them the same as you would with any other shared printer.