LapLink MN-LGD011-XX-US manual Using Print Redirection-Overview, Preparing for Print Redirection

Using Print Redirection—Overview

There 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

1For detailed instructions on printing over a LapLink con- nection, see page 138.

2For detailed instructions on setting up a printer for Print Redirection, see page 140.

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