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What is Print Management? How to Install?

Print Management

What is Print Management Console?

In this article, What is Print Management? How to Install? and what features it offers, we will talk about them.

To manage printers on Windows 10, usually in the Control Panel; We use the "Devices and Printers" section.

Along with Windows 10 updates; We can also make some printer settings from Start>Settings>Devices>Printers & Scanners.

Both menus are advantageous in many areas. In general, the Settings section provides a faster solution, while the Control panel provides more detailed action.

What if we want to do a more detailed process with these? E.g; What if we want to remove the installed driver or add a new output form? For such settings, the more advanced (even Windows Print Server' which we can call the ancestor of) printmanagement.msc We can use console.

First of all, to open this console; Double-click the Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Print Management icon. Also, go to Run. printmanagement.msc This console can be accessed by typing.

Print Management
Print Management

Our main purpose in writing the article is that we want you to know about this console. Also, we want to share with you the solution of an error that we usually encounter with this console.

How to Install Print Management Console?

Unfortunately, on some Windows 10 computers this console does not appear in the Administrative Tools section. For this you need to reinstall. These setups are generally; (Friends who are interested in the IT world will remember) on the Control Panel. Add Remove Programs within the section Turn Windows Features On or Off We would add the section.
Console no longer installs from this partition. Instead of; Start>Settings>Applications(Apps)>Optional Features>Add a Feature in the search section; When you type Print or Print, you can see the "Print Management" Console appears. After that, it will be enough to fill in the square box on the left and say "Install" from the bottom section.

Uygulamalar, İsteğe Bağlı Özellikler
Apps, Optional Features
Print Management
Add Feature, Print Management Console
İsteğe Bağlı Özellikler, Özellik Ekle
Optional Features, Add Features
Özellik Ekle, Yükleniyor
Add Feature, Loading

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If you want to get more detailed information; What Microsoft wrote about Print Management from here you can reach.

Also if you want to read our previous article here (What is Replication?) you can click.