Windows XP Printing Basics: Defining Some Terms
Before you connect a printer to your computer, you should understand some of the terms that the Windows XP documentation uses when it discusses printing. These are as follows:
Printer—This is the actual physical printer that renders your output onto paper or some other material. In previous versions of Windows NT, this was referred to as the printer device, whereas the term printer was an abstract software concept that acted as an interface between the application and the physical printer.
Logical printer—Windows XP uses the term logical printer to refer to the interface between your application and the printer device. In other words, a logical printer under Windows XP is a software abstraction of ...
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