Re: Spooler on Client...?
No, you can't. From the Windows documentation:
"An NT-based-operating system user's view of a "printer" is really a print queue, to which one or more physical printer devices can be connected. A port is the physical connection between the print queue and a single printer device."
"Port monitors consist of user-mode DLLs. They are responsible for providing a communications path between the user-mode print spooler and the kernel-mode port drivers that access I/O port hardware."
Some printers do also use Language Monitors, or specific Print Processors (i.e. my Canon Pixma Pro does). Everything is handled by the Spooler service - which is more a Print Manager than a simple "spooler".
That does not justify the bugs, or course. I guess there's a lot of old code untouched for decades, I guess....
Biting the hand that feeds IT
