Printer Installer: Direct IP Printer Management and Provisioning

• Manage direct IP printer drivers - Upload, update, and remove printer drivers from the printer driver repository. If a driver is updated in Printer Installer the driver will automatically be updated on end user computers.
• Manage direct IP printer settings - Change a printers driver, port, comment, location, or other setting in the Printer Installer Administrator and the setting will automatically be applied to the end users printers.
• Install direct IP printers automatically on end user computers -Specify a subnet, Active Directory group, user, computer to automatically have a printer installed.
• Install direct IP printers from a web portal - End users can use the web portal to quickly find and install printers.  Use the optional floor plan maps to make it even easier for users to find the printer they want to install.
• Manage end user direct IP printer device and printer preferences - Set device settings and printer preferences like: duplex, paper size, paper trays, etc… When the printer is installed it will automatically be configured with the settings you specified. You can also make a change to these settings and have the change applied to printers that have been previously installed.
• View print job audit records - Search for and view the following print job record information: date, time, computer, user, printer, and page count
• Install Windows shared printers automatically on end user computers - Specify a subnet, Active Directory group, user, computer to automatically have a printer installed.
• Install Windows shared printers from a web portal - End users can use the web portal to quickly find and install printers.  Use the optional floor plan maps to make it even easier for users to find the printer they want to install.
• View print job audit records - Search for and view the following print job record information: date, time, computer, user, printer, and page count
• Add ability for users to install printers from a floor plan map - Use the map feature to enable users to quickly find and install Windows shared printers by seeing the physical location of printers on a floor plan map. End users can install the printer by clicking on the printer icon.
• Provision Windows shared printers – Printer Installer lets you work with Windows shared printers. Windows shared printers can be automatically listed in the Administrator right along side your direct IP printer objects. You can have Windows shared printers automatically installed to end users just like you do direct IP printers.  >> To learn more about provisioning Windows shared printers with Printer Installer, click here.

Detailed Description

There are three parts to Printer Installer; Printer Installer Administrator, Printer Installer Portal and Printer Installer Client. Read below for more information on the functionality of each part.

Printer Installer Administrator - Use the web based Administrator to organize and manage printers.

Printer Installer Portal - Use the Printer Installer Portal to quickly find and install printers.

• Self-service one-click printer installation
• Install TCP/IP, Windows shared, and LPR printers.
• Single portal for entire enterprise
• Automatically selects users current location when opening
• View optional floor plan maps with printers placed at physical location
• Quickly search for printers by name, location, and folder
• Non-administrator users can add or delete TCP/IP printers
• Non-administrator users can add or delete shared printer per-workstation or per-user printer connections
• Restrict printer installation by group membership or IP address range

Printer Installer Client - The client runs as a service on the end user machines. The client checks in with the PI web server to see if any printers have been deployed to the user or workstation.

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