32.3 How to create a physical printer?

Prerequisites

  • Minimum one active print manager must be available on your server.

  • Minimum one active driver store must be available for your print system.

Procedure

  1. In Printers, click + Create printer button to open the Create printer wizard.

    The wizard consists of General information, Container, Print manager, Drivers, Banners, Features, and Summary page.

  2. On the General Information page, by default the Physical option is selected. Enter the name of the printer.

  3. (Optional) Enter the Description, and Location details for the printer.

  4. Select the DNS name or IP address option and enter the value for the physical printer.

    Example: print.mycompany.com or 126.34.47.78.

  5. Click the LPR printer name or RAW port number and enter the Network identifier value.

  6. On the Container page, select the container to store the printer object

  7. On the Print manager page, select the print manager. By default, the print manager associated with the current dashboard view is automatically selected.

  8. (Optional) On the Drivers page, select the default print drivers to install for each platform. If a driver is not listed, you can add new drivers by using the Manage Drivers option under Driver Stores.

  9. (Optional) On the Banner page, select only one banner for the printer.

  10. (Optional) On the Features page, turn on the features you want to enable, or turn off the ones you don't need for your new printer.

  11. On the LPR configuration page, select the address range, IP address, and subnet range for LPR printing.

  12. (Optional) Turn on the Filter all LF to CRLF and append FF to jobs to change the bytes in the LPR data stream of all incoming LPR print jobs from Line Feeds to Carriage Returns with Line Feeds and append a Form Feed to the end of the print job.

  13. On the Summary page, validate the parameters and click Finish.