Chapter 13. Installing and Managing Printers

• Understanding Print Servers 286

• Selecting Printers 287

• Planning Printer Placement 287

• Installing Printers 288

• Adding Client Drivers for Shared Printers 295

• Setting Security Options 297

• Setting Up a Printer Pool 300

• Configuring Print Spooling 301

• Using the Fax Service 302

• Summary 305

As much as everyone would like to have a paperless office, it appears we’ll all be much grayer (or balder, or both) before that completely comes to pass. Office paper consumption peaked in 1999, and since then the quantities of waste in the office paper-recycling bin have levelled off and in some places have actually begun to shrink. However, even if fewer people are printing out their e-mails before reading them, paper remains at the center of many business operations.