LapLink MN-LGD011-XX-US - Manual (Page 129)

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Using Print Redirection—Overview
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here are two ways to print over a LapLink connection. While controlling a host computer, you can print
from that computer directly to your local printer. Or reverse direction and print directly from your local
computer to a host printer. Either way, you can use Print Redirection to send a document over LapLink to
be printed at the opposite end of the connection.
Once you have opened a LapLink connection, you can use
Print Redirection to send a document from the computer at
either end of the connection to a printer at the other end.
There are two ways to use Print Redirection over a LapLink
connection:
• Print from remote to local While using Remote Con-
trol to view and operate a hostcomputer, you can send
a document from that computer to a printer at your loca-
tion. For example, you can prepare a document on your
office computer from home and print the document on
your home printer.
• Print from local to remote When connected to a
LapLink host computer, you can print a document from
your computer to a printer at the remote location. For
example, after working on a report at home or on the
road, you can connect to your office computer and print
the report to a high-quality laser printer in your office.
Without Print Redirection, you’d have to transfer the doc-
ument to the other computer and then use Remote Con-
trol to run a program on the remote computer and print
the document.
Printing a document over a LapLink connection is much like
printing it on a local printer: In the program in which you
have prepared the document, choose the standard Print
command. Normally you would then choose a printer close
at hand. In Print Redirection, however, you choose a printer
at the opposite end of the connection from the document.1
When printing from remote to local, use Remote Control to
choose Print on the remote computer; then choose a printer
attached to your local computer.
When printing from local to remote, choose Print on your
local computer; then choose a printer attached to the com-
puter at the other end of the LapLink connection.
Preparing for Print Redirection
To print documents from a computer to a printer at the other
end of a LapLink connection, you need to set up the desti-
nation printer on that computer, using the exact same driver.
If you want to print reports on the office printer while at
home, for example, set up the office printer on your home
computer.2
1 For detailed instructions on printing over a LapLink con-
nection, see page 138 .
2 For detailed instructions on setting up a printer for Print
Redirection, see page 140 .