Windows printing concepts
The following is a list of basic printing concepts and components in the Windows environment.
We can print from our machine to a locally attached printer connected on USB or LPT port or we can print from a network printer that is managed by a print server.
Printing device: A printing device is the physical printer (the hardware device) to which we send print jobs.
Printers: This is the software representation of a printing device. Computers store information about printers, so they can find and interact with printing devices.
Printer driver: Printer driver is the software program that lets the computer communicate with the printing device. The driver converts the information to be printed to a language that the printing device can understand and process appropriately.
Print job: When a user sends a document to print, the data sent to the printer is known as a print job. Print jobs are queued to the printer in a specific sequence, controlled by the print spooler.
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