31.0 Managing Print Managers

The Print Manager facilitates communication between users and printers while managing print jobs, security, and spooling. Print managers are objects in the eDirectory tree that provide a platform for printer agents on the OES or Appliance server. The print manager receives the print jobs and sends them to the printers. A single print manager can manage print jobs for multiple printers.

The print manager uses a database to store information about the printers it controls. The database creates a backup when you create or delete a printer. You can create additional print managers on other servers, but only one print manager can be active at a time. To activate other print managers, you must shut down the active one and perform a startup.

To access the print manager, log in to UMC with user credentials, then click iPrint > Print Manager and select either Dashboard view or Table view tab.