Local and remote printers

A local printer is a real printer attached to a local host, for which there is a local queue.

All jobs submitted to this queue are processed and printed on the host on which the queue exists. A remote printer is a real printer attached to a remote host. The queue for a remote printer specifies a backend whose function is to send the spooled job from the local host across the network to the remote host. All jobs submitted to this queue, on the local host, are sent across the network to the remote host where they are processed and printed.