What are the printer improvements in SP6 for NT 4.0?
November 3, 1999
A. A. Knowledge base article Q242035outlines changes in SP6 to printing which are outlined below.
The following problems have been addressed:
A print job hanging on a printer in a printer pool should resume after the error condition has been resolved.
A print job should not be sent to a printer from a printer pool if the printer is not available (unless its a low toner error)
If the print job is not printed within a configurable amount of time, the spooler should be able to redirect the job to the next available printer in the pool.
Two registry values have been created under the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPrintProviders
These values can only be configured per server:
RestartJobOnPoolError (REG_DWORD) - configures the time (in seconds) after which a job in the pool should be restarted if the port is in an error state and the error condition has not been resolved.
RestartJobOnPoolEnabled (REG_DWORD) - Any value greater than zero enables this behavior, 0 disables it.
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