Installing multiple printers

[Guest]

I have a need to install about 50 printers on multiple Windows 2000 or XP
computers. They are all network printers and would be set up with individual
IP address ports. By just having this many printers installed on a PC, will
this affect overall performance of Windows? Can the installation of this
many printers be automated in some way to make it easier to set up each PC?
Does anyone know of a third party solution or utility that could be installed
to manage this high number of printers?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Alan Morris [MSFT]]

Print Migrator (printmig.exe).

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...25-CBC9-44DA-B2C9-FFDBC46B0B17&displaylang=en

XP and Win2k Pro are limited to 10 concurrent connections so don't plan to
use the machines to share the printers to a bunch on clients.

The best way to perform this operation is install the 50 printers on one
machine, get the backup, then restore to the other machines.

If you have Xerox drivers that cab some of the drivers files, you will get
an error, but just install these drivers after the migration and the printer
will appear after a spooler restart.





--
Alan Morris
Windows Printing Team
Search the Microsoft Knowledge Base here:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=fh;[ln];kbhowto

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.