[geeks] Add a Logical printer?

[Phil Stracchino]

On 06/10/10 18:31, Jonathan Patschke wrote:
> 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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