[geeks] Add a Logical printer?

[Jonathan Patschke]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Phil Stracchino wrote:

>> On XP how do you add a logical printer from the command line? Thanks,
>
> ...as distinct from an illogical printer?  What new Microsoftism is this?

In Microsoft-land, your printer is not the plastic box that turns paper
into paper jams.  That's a "print device".  No, the word "printer" is
used for what's called a "print queue" everywhere else.

Why not call the print queue a "print queue"?  Sorry, that term is
reserved for the collection of jobs pending to be printed, rather than the
software construct that manages that collection of jobs.  A printer with
no pending jobs doesn't have an empty queue; it doesn't have a queue at
all!

To further confuse matters, various Microsoft technical documentation
inconsistently referred to a "print device" as a "physical printer" and
the "printer" as a "logical printer".

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