 | 32 bit Windows application supporting Windows 9x, NT4, and 2000. |
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Windows LPR Spooler allows transparent printing from Microsoft Windows
applications to network printers that are driven by a LPR based print
server. |
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Windows LPR Spooler allows to install substantially more network
printers simultaneously than it is possible just with redirected LPT1-3
ports. Beyond that it does not interfere with directly attached
printers (no LPTx ports are abused for network printing). |
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Windows LPR Spooler queues print files locally before they are sent over
the net. The user has the chance to delete locally queued jobs before
they are sent. |
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Windows LPR Spooler allows querying the status of a remote printer
queue as well as removing print jobs from it. |
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In case of spool failures (e.g. due to the server or the net being down)
Windows LPR Spooler can retry to send print jobs after a user-definable
amount of time. |
| Multithreaded spooling allows more than one network printer to receive
jobs at one time. |
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Windows LPR Spooler has a so-called "unattended mode" in which errors
that occur during a spool attempt are not reported to the user with a
dialog box which would block the spooler. Instead the status display
indicates that an error occured, and the user may check the cause for
this error later. This allows, for example, over-night high volume
batch printing. |
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Printing to network printers from DOS applications running under Windows
is also possible in some limited fashion (the DOS app must be able to
write its printer output to a file). |
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The included Protocol DLL WLPR2_32.DLL which handles the LPR/LPD protocol
allows various queue-specific settings like
 | selection of file type according to RFC 1179
| specification of job name, job title, job class for print jobs
| extended options allow customization of about every aspect of the LPR/LPD
protocol |
| specification of include files which are pre- and/or appended
to print jobs
| support for additional options available for LPRng based print servers |
| possibility to issue control commands to LPRng based print servers |
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The included Protocol DLL WJETD_32.DLL allows access to all HP JetDirect based
printers that allow job downloads to a specific TCP/IP port and can display
status info for HP JetDirect based printers (those that understand the @PJL
INFO commands) |
| Windows LPR Spooler can be extended to virtually every protocol by adding
an appropriate Protocol DLL. |
