What are the details of Print Management on Windows 7?

Windows 7 is the latest and the most superior operating system released by Microsoft. Windows 7 comes with many new features that are superior to all previous released versions of Windows operating systems. Its user interface is graphical and it is easy to work with such an interface. The device management features are very advanced and give you perfect support to manage all devices installed on your computer. Print Management feature coming with Windows 7 is far more advanced than the previous versions of Windows operating systems. With Print Management on Windows 7, you can gain central administration for managing a print server and network printer tasks and to share printers across network.

Print Management in Windows 7 has the following features:

Automatic detection of printers

Management console

Create a new printer filter

Automatic detection of printers

Print Management in Windows 7 helps to detect all printers located on the same subnet automatically. It helps to install necessary printer drivers, helps to set-up queues, and also to share printers with other computers on the network. You do not need to intervene for performing these tasks if you have the correct printer driver. If you do not have one, you can get the latest hardware and operating system compatible drivers from the hardware manufacturers website.

Management console

Print Management in Windows 7 provides a perfect single interface that can be used by administrators to manage more than one printer or print servers at a time. Print Management can also be made use to export printers and settings from a system to another and after that import the same to a different computer. In order to open MMC or the Microsoft Management Console for Print Management, you can click on 'Start', then navigate to the 'Control Panel', and then 'System and Maintenance', and launch 'Administrative Tools', to open Print Management.

Create a new printer filter

With Print Management for Windows 7, you can create new filters for printers. The filters help in the display of printers that meet a certain set of conditions. Take for a case wherein it would be very helpful to filter out some printers that have certain error conditions or to filter out a set of printers that are in a group of buildings regardless of the print server they make use of. These filters are stored in Custom Printer Filters folder which is located by the Print Management tree.

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