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This chapter covers everything you need to know about the Windows 2000 printing service. Despite all of our efforts to create a paperless office, printers are not going away. And for all intents and purposes, for good or for evil, printers are becoming more sophisticated, cheaper, and easier to use every day. | Print Services This chapter covers everything you need to know about the Windows 2000 printing service. Despite all of our efforts to create a paperless office printers are not going away. And for all intents and purposes for good or for evil printers are becoming more sophisticated cheaper and easier to use every day. New technologies like e-mail and the World Wide Web have not done much to alleviate the need for printers. Instead they have often succeeded in shifting the burden of hardcopy output from the sender to the receiver. These days even attorneys e-mail you contracts and then ask you to print them out sign and return them. The network operating system lives and dies by its ability to host access to printers. The print service is the third leg of the stool that makes up a network operating system. Without it a network OS simply falls over. Windows 2000 has inherited a rich and robust printing service culled from years of R D and the experiences of over a hundred million users. It may seem like installing printers and printing is a no-brainer. For the large part it is until the printer stops printing. You need to have a good understanding of the elements and components of Windows networking services to troubleshoot this vital facility. As an administrator you need to understand the logical environment in order to troubleshoot printer problems effectively. Therefore we ll start by introducing the components that make printing actually happen. Later we ll discuss installing printers and you ll find that the properties and parameters you set up will mean more to you. Finally you ll be able to explore print service troubleshooting once you re equipped with the fundamentals. In This Chapter Installing and Managing Printers Adding Setting Up and Publishing Printers Sharing Printers Permissions and Ownership Strategies for Effectively Managing and Troubleshooting Printer Services 830 Part VI File Print and Web Services You should understand that the components we