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Ten legal secretaries who provide administrative support to the attorneys. All of the secretaries use a single, shared, high-speed laser printer that is connected to a dedicated Windows 7 print server. The secretaries print multiple copies of large documents on a regular basis, and although the laser printer is fast, it is kept running almost constantly. Sometimes the secretaries have to wait 20 minutes or more after submitting a print job for their documents to reach the top of the queue. The office manager has offered to purchase additional printers for the department. However, the secretaries are accustomed to simply clicking the Print button, and don’t like the idea of having to examine multiple print queues to determine which one has the fewest jobs before submitting a document. What can you do to provide the department with a printing solution that will enable the secretaries to utilize additional printers most efficiently?

Reference: Zacker, C. (2014). Configuring Windows 8, (exam 70-687). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN: 9781118901182

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With the help of Printer Load Balancing this can be achieved.

As Stated in question , this can be achieved manually - To look at the queue of each printer and issue a print coomand which has less queue but no one in secetaries offices want to do that.

Automation of Load balancing can be implemented

At hardware/network level, also known as clustering

At operating system level, known as printer pooling in Windows environments,

Through some third party softwares

Load balancing Microsoft Print Server is one of the such software which can be used effectively in such scenario and as it is from MS , compatibility and configuring will not be a problem at all .

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