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Printer Pooling

Printer pooling is the facility to use two printers from one Mac or Windows PC. It enables the user to print to one printer and have two printers actually sharing the print job. This would effectively double the print speed and halve the time taken to print the job.

The following are assumed:

• All printers are connected and running on your PC / Mac in their own right.
• The printers in the pool are the same type and model!
• The same media size is being used on each printer. Printer pooling only works when both printers use the same media size.
• You have a basic knowledge of how your computer and operating system function.

Printer pooling on an Apple Mac

1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple Menu (Top Left)
2. Select Print and Fax
3. Select the printers that you wish to be in the printer pool by selecting the first printer then whilst holding down the Command key, select the other.
4. Click Create Printer Pool
5. TYpe a name for the printer pool and click Ok
6. When you print a document, you can choose the printer pool from the printer pop-up menu.

Printer pooling on an Windows XP PC

Printer pooling is setup in the following way:

1. Ensure that all printers are installed on the PC that you wish to use for printer pooling.
2. Click on Start, then Printers and Faxes.
3. Select the Main printer that you will use to print to. All your print jobs go to this printer.
4. Right Click on this printer and select Properties.
5. Click on the properties tab, the following screen below will be shown:
6. Click on Enable printer pooling check box.
7. You can now select which printers you wish to pool. The example below shows three Kyocera Printers that are pooled, but you can select as many as you wish:
8. Click Apply and you've now setup printer pooling