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I want to forward all the jobs from one printer to another on Windows XP, Vist, 7,8 - is this possible? The scenario would be any print job printed on one would also be printed on the other in a chained fashion.

EDIT: The printers are all local

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  • What do you want to do ? What is your setup ? Be more explicit
    – Stephane
    May 30, 2013 at 9:39
  • Are these printers shared via a print server? Or printing direct? IP/USB/LPT/etc?
    – jscott
    May 30, 2013 at 9:43
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    So printing to Printer A would send the jobs to B, C and D?
    – tombull89
    May 30, 2013 at 9:51

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Sounds like you're looking for print mirroring, not forwarding.

To the best of my knowledge, this kind of setup is not possible with the native Windows print spooler. You'll have to get fancy to accomplish this.

Fancy, in this case, would be a custom print-provider. There are third party utilities (paid, I know of no free ones) that do this, as that kind of setup is occasionally found in high print situations like Higher Education computer labs.

How it works is that when you create a new print queue, you create it through a custom print port. This is a software shim that can do things like mirror print jobs between other queues on the system or do more intelligent print-pooling than the native Windows system.

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  • I actually know of, and have used very successfully, a free one. andtechnologies.com/index.php?q=free-software/multiprinter-port
    – mfinni
    May 30, 2013 at 13:10
  • @mfinni PCounter, of course. We used their commercial software for our labs. Good stuff.
    – sysadmin1138 ♦
    May 30, 2013 at 16:45
  • @mfinni thanks for that. I downloaded it but get an error when I try to run it. The 'about' of the program says it supports versions up to 2000 - have you had any success on Vista, 7 or 8?
    – probably at the beach
    May 31, 2013 at 3:39
  • The error was 'The environment specified is invalid' - looks like it's x64 related
    – probably at the beach
    May 31, 2013 at 4:08
  • @sysadmin1138 I'd also be interested to see any commercial products you might recommend.
    – probably at the beach
    May 31, 2013 at 6:34

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