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Printer Pooling
Using the Printer Pool
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Using the Printer Pool
• Send print jobs to the pool, not to an individual printer •
When the first printer has taken as many jobs as it can handle (that being two jobs - one to be
printed immediately, the other waiting), the following jobs “spill over” to the second printer,
and then to the third printer.
Note that if you are only printing two jobs, they would both go to the first printer. Pooling is a
spill-over methodology. It does not balance printer usage.
Once the pool has been set up, maintenance and configuration changes should be done through
the menus for each individual printer (e.g., Zebra P640i 1), not through the pool (which can
produce undesirable results).
Important • The effect of any maintenance or changes can (and should) be tested by sending
print jobs separately to each printer, not to the pool.