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280 Zebra P630i & P640i Card Printer Service Manual 980006-001 Rev. A

Printer Pooling

Creating the Pool

Step 1. Go to Start > Printers and Faxes > Add a Printer

Step 2. Click Next on the Add Printer Wizard welcome screen.

Step 3. Select Local Printer. Make sure that Automatically Detect My Plug and Play Printer

is unchecked, then click Next.

Step 4. Select Use the following port, and choose the port that the first printer is on. In this

illustration, this will be ATLUSB001.

Step 5. In the printer list, choose Zebra Technologies as the manufacturer, then choose (for

this illustration) Zebra P640i. Click Next.

Step 6. On the next screen, choose Keep Existing Driver, then click Next.

Step 7. Choose something meaningful for the printer name - Pool, for example. Decide

whether or not this is to be the default printer, then click Next.

Step 8. Decide whether or not the pool is to be shared, then click Next. (“Shared” means that

other networked computers will be able to send jobs to the pool.)

Step 9. Choose no test page, then click Next.

Step 10. Click Finish. In Printers and Faxes, there should now be a printer called Pool, or

whatever you named it.

Step 11. Right click on Pool, then click Properties.

Step 12. Click the Ports tab.

Step 13. Check the Enable Printer Pooling box.

Step 14. In the list of ports, select the other ports that have printers connected to them

(remember that only one port was selected on the initial install). For this illustration,

check the ATLUSB002 and ATLUSB003 ports, then click OK.

The setup now is three printers (Zebra P640i 1, Zebra P640i 2, and Zebra P640i 3), and one

“pool”, which is all of them.