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. . . Printing over a LapLink connection
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To print a document over a LapLink connection:
1 Open a LapLink connection to the remote computer.
• To print from remote to local, include Remote Control
in the services you open.
• To print from local to remote, open Print Redirection
or any of the other services.
2 Open a word processor, spreadsheet, or other program and
prepare the document for printing.
3 Use the standard Print command for your program and
choose the printer you set up just for Print Redirection. (It is
typically a printer with [LapLink] at the end of its name.)
The Print Redirection icon on the LapLink status bar ani-
mates as the document is sent over a LapLink connection
to the destination printer.
When the animation stops, the document has arrived at the
other computer. You can then close LapLink if you want.
TIP You can monitor the status of the printing document
after it’s been sent over a LapLink connection. On the
computer to which the printer is attached, click the Win
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dows Start button, point to Settings, and click Printers.
Then double-click the printer icon.
NOTE You can use Print Redirection over a LapLink con-
nection even when it is not one of the services currently
open. Print Redirection becomes available on demand.
Choosing among several printers
Normally, Print Redirection sends documents to the printer
that has been set up as the default printer on the connected
computer. If you send a print job from home to the office, for
example, the printer designated as the default on the office
computer automatically gets the job. (If there is only one
printer set up on a computer, that printer is always used.)
If you want to use a printer other than the default, you need
to set up LapLink to prompt you with a list of available print
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ers whenever you print. Change this setting on the com-
puter the printers are attached to, not the computer with the
document.
TIP If you’re not in front of that computer, you can still
change this setting by remote controlling the computer.
To set up LapLink to prompt with a list of printers:
1 On the computer the printers are attached to, click Print
Redirection Options on the Options menu.
2 Click Prompt with a List of Available Printers.
Whenever you send a document to that computer to be
printed, you are prompted with a list of all the printers set up
on that computer.