Printers have become an essential component of a computer. This means, sale of printers have increased and so has printer problems. Hence, every printer user should be aware of different printer issues, different printing terms, and different basic printer troubleshooting etc. to use this device to its fullest. The users may also require computer help and tech support to cope with printer problems.
Earlier, printers were a part of the corporate world but now printers have reached home users too. Many home users are using printers for personal use. Moreover it's not limited to just printing from a desktop to a printer, home users are now doing all advanced usage of printers like sharing a single printer with more than one computer or a laptop.
Moreover many new remote session tools have come up in the market where users can sign up for a particular price and connect their office pc to their home pc. Using these they can do remote desktop printing from their home pc to the office pc and vice versa.
Remote desktop printing is used in corporate environments too as in a network environment in an office every user cannot have a local printer attached to their pc. Here comes the idea of remote desktop printing. This is mainly helpful for those who work on remote computers a lot or those who travel a lot and need to print something to their office pc; it is highly helpful to them.
There is another way of printing which is used only in corporate environments compared to home users. It is Terminal Server Printing. There are 2 scenarios under terminal server printing: Client Printers and Server Printers. In terminal server printing users can print from one location to another location e.g. one print from London to a printer in USA.
Last but not the least is DOS printing. This is useful for those who still use DOS for certain office jobs. There are different commands in DOS using which one can print to a USB printer even though it is being printed from DOS.
Behind all these there is always a basic factor involved- i.e. printing and no printing is possible if there is no printer wizard involved. Although nowadays all printers need to be installed using the wizard, the software interface itself helps in installing. But in case of network installation the wizard plays a major role.