Add Printer

Add a new printer

In the Printer Management page, click Print Solution and then Add a Print Solution printer

Then, you are on the Printer page properties.

You can define then the Code of your printer, this code will be later used to identify the printer in the Printer selection page to select the right device to print a report.

Then you can select the Printer ID. Printer ID dropdown list all the printers connected to devices where you installed the Print Solution client. Note that is the same physical printer have been setup on multiple devices where the Print Solution client is installed then you may find it multiple times.

The Automatic Print is very important: it allows end user to change the printer properties manually before sending the print job to the printer. If you want to setup a fully directed printing, be sure this property is set to true, then the document will be sent directly to the printer without any user intervention.

Define Printer Properties

You will see all the properties of the printer that you may change,

These properties are the common ones that you can find in the printer driver.

Property	Description
Copies	The number of document copies you want to print
Pages to Print	A set of pages to print. The format is the same as the one commonly used in print dialogs in applications. A few examples: 1,3 prints pages 1 and 3 -5 prints pages 1 through 5 inclusive - prints all pages 1,3- prints all pages except page 2.
Collate	The document has to be printed with copies collation
Color	The document has to be printed in colors or B&W
Orientation	Portrait or landscape
Duplex	Two-sided printing along the long-edge (portrait) or the short edge (landscape) respectively
Paper Size	A list of supported paper sizes
Media	A list of media names the printer driver supports
Paper Bin	A list of paper tray names the printer driver supports

Last updated on Feb 28, 2022