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Client-Side Rendering Overview
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- 12/15/2021
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Point and Print loads the printer driver onto the client computer as in previous versions of the Windows operating system. Client-side rendering causes the printer driver to render the print job to the Page Description Language [PDL] that the printer uses instead of to the Enhanced Metafile [EMF] format or XML Paper Specification [XPS] format that the printer driver uses. The RAW-format PDL is then sent to the print server for queuing and printing by the new functionality in the print spooler.
In addition to moving the processing load of print-job rendering from the print server to the client computer, client-side rendering also offers these advantages to the user:
- Driver mismatch problems are eliminated. Because the same computer that spooled the print job also renders the EMF-format data, there is no longer a problem if the client has a version of the printer driver that is incompatible with the version on the print server.
- Offline printing is supported. An end-user can now spool a print job to a remote printer even if they are not connected to the print server that hosts the printer. The client-side rendering feature makes it possible for a user to spool and render a print job locally. When the client computer can establish a connection to the print spooler, the rendered print job is automatically sent to the print server for printing.
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