When you ve created a separate instance of the printer for each group to use, you can go through and set other options specific to the group. For example, you might assign a higher priority to the Management printer than to the Finance printer. Even though all jobs would print on the same physical printer, setting the priorities in this way would cause a job sent by members of the Management group to print before jobs sent by members of the Finance group. We mentioned earlier that some people figure out how to set their job to a high priority and force them to print before everyone else s jobs. If you have a user like this and want some revenge, you could create a special printer just for them and assign it a very low priority.
Users can never boost the priority of their jobs higher than anyone else in that group can.
For example, if a user in Finance boosted the priority of his or her print jobs, they may print before some of the other Finance jobs, but they will still take a back seat to the jobs sent by the Management group. Another benefit to establishing multiple printers is that you can create a special printer for high-volume users who send one large print job. You can set this printer up in such a way that the user can send the print job at any time, but the job doesn t actually start printing until after business hours. Doing so frees the printer for others to use during the day, and high-volume users can pick up their print jobs in the morning. The only downside to this technique is that you must make sure that the printer holds enough paper for the large print job to complete.