## Printer Device Driver

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### Printer

The Printer notebook page provides a list of all available Print Queues on your workstation. By selecting a print queue, you are selecting a printer driver and model represented by that queue. The printer driver and model selected will be used as the destination for printouts from the program.

Printer Notebook Page Options

Available Print Queues This field contains a list of all print queues found on or attached to your workstation (local or network accessible).

Print Queues are set up with a printer driver, printer model and an output port (for example, LPT1, COM2, or file). The printer driver (assigned to a print queue) can be queried for the printer model's abilities (for example, forms, fonts, or color) and used to format a program's printouts for that model.

Print queues are used as a "holding area" for printouts from any OS/2, DOS, or Windows application running under OS/2. Using OS/2's multitasking, these applications run and can print at the same time. The print queue's holding area ensures that only one printout is sent to the printer port at one time .

To select a print queue, scroll through the Available Print Queues list and click on the appropriate printer.

When a Print Queue is selected the Attached Printer Driver and Attached Device Name are shown on the page representing the printer driver and model for that queue.

Job Properties Selecting this button opens a dialog box that displays the changeable job options for the printer model. Any changes made to a printer model's job property dialog box or other program settings in the notebook will be saved and applied to any printouts from Font Test.

The OS/2 API that causes job properties to be displayed is DevPostDeviceModes().

Note: Changing the Job Properties in Font Test has no effect on the Job Properties used for any other program.

Other Destination Some network attached Print Queues available for output are not always listed because some networks may not have notified OS/2 that an attached resource (server) has an output queue.

Use the Other Destination push button to select such a queue.

Attached Printer Driver This field shows the name of the printer driver installed in the Print Queue selected from the Available Print Queues list.

Attached Device Name This field shows the name of the printer device support that is selected for the printer driver installed in the Print Queue selected from the Available Print Queues list.

Note: The attached device can be one of many output devices.