Lesson 5: Configuring Print and Document Services

Question 1

Print Device

Answer 1

The actual hardware that produces hard-copy documents on paper or other print media

Question 2

Printer (in windows)

Answer 2

Software interface through which a computer communicates with a print device.

Question 3

Print Server

Answer 3

Computer or standalone device that receives print jobs from clients and sends them to print devices locally attached or connected to the network

Question 4

Printer Driver

Answer 4

Converts print jobs generated by applications into string of commands (PCL) for a specific print device.

Question 5

PCL

Answer 5

Printer Control Language - Language understood by the printer

Question 6

One standard for PCL

Answer 6

PostScript

Question 7

PCL can be ___ or ___

Answer 7

Standard (Like PostScript) or proprietary

Question 8

Spooler

Answer 8

A print queue

Question 9

What are the print architectures

Answer 9

Direct Printing
Locally Attached Printer Sharing
Network-Attached Printing
Network Attached Printer Sharing
Advanced Printing Configurations

Question 10

Direct Printing

Answer 10

Computer supplies printer, printer driver and print server functions

Question 11

Locally Attached Printer Sharing

Answer 11

Each client uses its own printer and printer driver. A single machine conducting Direct Printing shares the printer with hosts on the network.

Question 12

EMF

Answer 12

Enhanced Metafile - standard job format. Default for Win 2000, XP, Server 2003.

Question 13

XPS

Answer 13

XML Paper Specification - Platform-independent document format used with Win Server 08, Vista and up. Print job files are converte to XPS for their entire journey to the print device.

Question 14

Network-Attached Printing

Answer 14

Print devices connected directly to and shared via the network.

Question 15

Network-Attached Print Sharing

Answer 15

A single print server services all print clients and spools for a network-attached printer.

Question 16

Advanced Configurations

Answer 16

Any combination of more than one printing architecture

Question 17

Printer Pool

Answer 17

And advanced printing configuration where a single printer is connected to multiple print devices, distributing large jobs to multiple, identical printers

Question 18

Customizations required for a print server that experiences heavy use

Answer 18

Additional memory, disk space

Question 19

Command to share a printer with Powershell

Answer 19

Set-Printer -Name “printer name” -share $true|$false -ShareName “Share Name”

Question 20

Remote Desktop Easy Print

Answer 20

Component that enables Remote Desktop clients to print to their local print devices.

Question 21

3 basic permissions for printers

Answer 21

Print
Manage this Printer
Manage Documents