Prioritizing print jobs

Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Prioritizing print jobs

You can create multiple printers that all send print jobs to a single printing device. Each printer has a print-priority level associated with it. If you create two printers and associate them with a single printing device, jobs routed to the printer with the higher priority (lower number) print first.

It's a good idea for users of x86-based computers to create a group that corresponds to each printer. For example, users in Group 1 might have access rights to a priority-1 printer, users in Group 2 might have access rights to a priority-2 printer, and so on. This lets you prioritize print jobs according to the users submitting their jobs.

For Macintosh users, you must create one user account for all incoming print jobs to the computer running Services for Macintosh. Consequently, all Macintosh users sending print jobs through the computer running Services for Macintosh will have the same access rights.

Note

• Print Server for Macintosh is not available on the 64-bit versions of the Windows operating systems.