Failover

Failover is useful when you want to target one main printer but need a fallback if that printer is out of action for some reason. Print Distributor will start always start with the first printer and if that is unavailable go on to the next and so on until it finds one that is available.

Any action can be added to the failover list, not just printers. If you are using the Send Mail action to send email and your mail server goes down then you can redirect to a backup. The same applies to writing files across the network, in the event of a failure Print Distributor can write to a local path instead.

All the printers are working so the print jobs get sent to the first printer.

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The first printer stops working, so Print Distributor automatically sends the print jobs to the second printer.

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The second printer then stops working, so Print Distributor automatically sends the print jobs to the third printer.

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The first printer is now working, so the print jobs are sent to it again.

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