Adding a Printer

1. In iManager, click Small Business Setup > Manage Printers > Add Printer.

2. Specify the printer information.

   Printer Name: The name you want to assign to the new printer. This name can be a descriptive by office quadrant, the printer model, or anything you choose.

   Printer Location: A location that will help users find this printer in the building.

   Printer Description: A description that will help users understand information or characteristics unique to this printer. Specific information includes the model number, if it supports color or PostScript*, and if it uses a specific form like letterhead.

   Printer Spool Volume: The volume where print jobs are to be spooled.

   Server-Attached Parallel Printer/Network Printer: The type of printer you are setting up. For network printers, you must also specify the IP address.

   The printer must be a network-attached printer or connected to the parallel port of the server. Printers cannot be connected to the server using a USB interface. Although network printers perform better than server-attached printers, they are usually more expensive. Network adapters can be purchased to convert a server- or workstation-attached printer to a network printer.

3. Select the default print driver to be installed for this printer for each Windows platform.

   You can specify only one print driver for each client operating system.

   If a print driver is not in the list, click Add Driver to add the driver to the list. D rivers can be added from an .inf file or from the Windows workstation that you are running iManager from. When adding drivers from the system, you can add print drivers only to the same Windows platform that you are running iManager on.

   For example, if you are running iManager from a Windows 2000 workstation, you can add only Windows 2000 print drivers. To add a print driver for Windows XP, you will need to go to a Windows XP workstation after creating the printer and click the "here" link on the iManager Printer page to upload the driver to the resource manager, then click the printer name to add the driver. See Modifying a Printer.

4. Click OK.

Modifying a Printer

1. In Novell iManager, click Small Business Setup > Manage Printers.

2. Click the printer name.

   A new browser window opens and the Manage Printer task in the standard iPrint management task is displayed for the printer selected. Use the tabs to perform management tasks for this printer. For more information, see "Managing Printers"in the OES iPrint Administration Guide for NetWare in the OES NetWare online documentation.

Deleting a Printer

1. In Novell iManager, click Small Business Setup > Manage Printers.

2. Check the check box next to the printer you want to delete, then click Delete Printer.

   All references to the printer are removed. If you used the printer on a map, the link to install the printer is invalid. You need to modify the map and remove the printer link.

Installing Printers on a Workstation

Before you can install a printer on a workstation, the iPrint Client must be installed. When you access the Printer List Web page, you are automatically prompted to install the client. If you created a map, when you attempt to install your first printer, you are prompted to install the iPrint client first.

To access the default page, enter one of the following URLs in your Web browser:

http://server_IP_address_or_dns_name/ipp (unsecure access)

https://server_IP_address_or_dns_name/ipps (secure access)

For example, if the DNS name for printing is printing.mycompany.com, then the user would access iPrint from one of the following URLs:

http://printing.mycompany.com/ipphttps://printing.mycompany.com/ipp

If Virtual Office is set up, clicking the printer button on the Virtual Office page also lets you access the page to install printers.

If you have a custom print map, the URL is on the print map. See Creating Custom Maps of Printer Locations.

Creating Custom Maps of Printer Locations

Using the iPrint Map Designer, you can create a map showing printer locations instead of having to use the iPrint Printer List to locate a printer.

1. In Novell iManager, click Small Business Setup > Manage Printers.

2. Click the iPrint Map Designer link.

3. (Optional) Create a gif or jpg of a map of your office and put it into the sys:apache2\htdocs\ippdocs\images\maps directory.

4. Add a printer to the map.

   1. Click the Printer icon and drag the printer to the desired location on the map.

   2. From the printer icon field, select the type of printer and size.

   3. Next to the Printer List field, click the Browse icon and type the IP address or DNS name of the server where the Print Manager is running.

   4. From the printer list, select the printer agent you want associated with this printer icon.

      If the printer is not listed, then you have not enabled IPP for the printer. See "Enabling/Disabling iPrint on Individual Printers" in the OES iPrint Administration Guide for NetWare in the OES NetWare online documentation.

      The Printer URL and Mouse Over Text fields are automatically filled in with the printer agent information.

      Printer URL: The URL created for the printer when IPP is enabled for the printer.

      WARNING:  If you want to access the printer from the Internet, make sure the DNS name or IP address corresponds to the external interface of the server.

      Mouse Over Text: By default, displays the printer agent's name. You can override this information by typing the text you want to display when a user moves the mouse over the Printer icon.

   5. (Optional) In the Printer Caption field, type the information to display, using Enter to parse the information onto multiple lines.

   6. (Optional) On the menu bar, click Driver Settings to set the installed driver settings for this printer.

      These settings included paper size, orientation, copies, duplex, color, collate, and removing the printer when the workstation is rebooted.

      If you delete a Printer icon or change the printer agent assignment for a Printer icon, any driver settings are cleared for that icon.

   7. (Optional) On the menu bar, click Font to change the base font, color, and size of text on the map.

5. (Optional) Edit a printer's information by clicking the desired Printer icon and then editing the printer information fields.

   To deselect a Printer icon while in the map, click anywhere in the design area.

6. Click Save and save the map to sys:\apache2\htdocs\ippdocs.

   If you click Refresh or exit Internet Explorer without saving the map, all changes made since the last time the map was saved will be lost.

To retrieve and modify an existing map file, click Open and browse to the directory where the map is located (sys:\apache2\htdocs\ippdocs).

To make the new print map visible from Virtual Office,

1. Open iManager.

2. Click Virtual Office Management > iPrint.

3. Select Enter a Custom URL to Launch iPrint.

4. Type http:server_IP_address or DNS_name\ippdoc\map_name.html

5. Click OK.

For more information on using the iPrint Map Designer, see "Creating a Map for Printing" in the OES iPrint Administration Guide for NetWare in the OES NetWare online documentation.