Although the default settings lets users print without additional configuration, you might want to modify some of those settings so that you can manage your printing resources most effectively.
Before creating additional printers, ensure you meet the following prerequisites:
To create additional printers
In Novell iManager, click > .
Fill in the fields.
Click for explanations about the fields.
Click .
Click , then select the Drivers for this printer.
If the printer drivers for this printer are not listed, you can still create the printer. After the printer is created, you can add the printer drivers to the Driver Store and then associate the drivers to the printer by clicking > .
These drivers are automatically downloaded to users’ workstations when they install the printer in the future.
Because the list of printer drivers included with this product is limited, you can add drivers to the Driver Store. See Updating Printer Drivers for more information.
If you do not select a driver, users are prompted to provide a disk with the appropriate driver the first time they install this printer on their workstations.
Click to create the printer.
Using iManager, you can manage Printer Agents. You can start up and shut down a Printer Agent, pause and resume input and output, view printer information, set configuration settings, and change the printer drivers.
In Novell iManager, click > .
Browse to and select the printer you want to manage.
Use the tabbed property pages to complete the task you want.
Printer driver profiles let you set the driver defaults for a Windows printer driver. Then you associate the printer driver profile to a printer so that when the printer is installed, it is configured with the settings you want.
For example, in a law office you might want the default paper size to be legal size. This means every time the printer and corresponding driver are installed on a workstation, the paper size is set to legal size.
When creating a printer driver profile, you work directly with a platform-specific printer driver; therefore, you must create and modify profiles from the same operating-specific platform as the printer driver. For example, to create or modify a Windows 2000 printer driver profile, you must access iManager and complete the task from a Windows 2000 workstation.
In Novell iManager, click > .
Browse to and select the Print Manager where you want the driver profile stored and made available to the printers on that manager.
Select an operation, and then click .
Create Printer Driver Profile: Creates a new printer driver profile.
Delete Printer Driver Profile: Deletes an existing driver profile.
Modify Printer Driver Profile: Changes the settings of an existing printer driver profile.
After creating a printer driver profile, you need to associate it with a printer.
In Novell iManager, click > .
Browse to and select the printer you want to modify.
Click > printer_driver_operating_system.
Select the printer driver from the list of .
Select the profile you want associated with this printer from the list of .
If you do not want a profile associated, select None.
Click to save the changes.
Users of an iPrint Direct-enabled printer send print jobs directly to the printer instead of sending the job to the Print Manager first. The job is sent to the printer in LPR or raw 9100 format, depending on the setting gateway autoload command for the printer. Although this greatly reduces server communication, the ability to audit print jobs is lost. iPrint Direct still supports driver updates, and printer information is gathered directly from the printer using SNMP.
In Novell iManager, click > .
Browse to and select the printer you want to enable iPrint Direct printing for.
Click > .
Select the option.
The following sections provide specific information about the print job management features. Users designated as managers or operators for a printer can perform these tasks for all jobs routed to that printer; individual job owners can perform these tasks only for their own print jobs.
You can view information about individual print jobs waiting to be processed by a specific printer.
In Novell iManager, click > .
Browse to and select the printer the job was sent to.
Click > .
Information about print jobs is displayed.
Administrators can delete any print job after it has been submitted if the job has not yet started printing. Users can delete only their own print jobs.
In Novell iManager, click > .
Browse to and select the printer the job was sent to.
Click > .
Check the check box next to the job you want to delete.
Click .
Occasionally, you might need to print a job ahead of other jobs that have already been submitted to a printer but have not yet started printing. Administrators, managers, and operators can move any job up or down the list. Users can move only their own jobs, and can move them only down the list.
In Novell iManager, click > .
Browse to and select the printer the job was sent to.
Click > .
Check the check box next to the job you want to modify.
Click to move a print job up the list.
Banner pages create a cover sheet for each print job that a printer produces. Using the Printer Banner Configuration task, you can customize the information printed on a banner to your needs. If you select eDirectory information such as the eDir e-mail address, the Print Manager needs rights to read these attributes. Follow the steps in Using eDirectory Attributes with Custom Banners.
In Novell iManager, click > .
Browse to and select the Print Manager you want.
Select an operation and click .
Create Custom Banner: Lets you create a new custom banner.
Delete Custom Banner: Lets you delete an existing banner.
Modify Custom Banner: Lets you edit the settings of an existing custom banner profile.
Complete the fields with the information you want. If you create multiple banners, you should use banner names that are descriptive enough to identify them when you associate the banner to a printer.
Select the .
This is where the banner option information appears on the banner page. The banner information is grouped together and then placed as a chunk either starting at the top of the page, centered on the page, or starting at the bottom of the page.
Select the banner options you want and the font size you want to use to display the information.
Click to save the changes.
In Novell iManager, click > .
Browse to and select the Print Manager where the printer agents are hosted.
Select , then click .
From the drop-down list, select the banner you want.
Check the check box next to each printer you want this banner associated with.
When you check the check box, the banner name appears in the field. To associate a different banner, select the desired banner from the drop-down list, and select the check box for the printer you want to change. If you do not want a banner to be used, select .
You can also assign banners when using the Manage Printer task.
In Novell iManager, click > .
Browse to and select the printer you want to modify.
Click > .
In , select the banner that you want this printer to use.
Click to save the changes.
If you select eDirectory information such as the eDir e-mail address, the Print Manager needs rights to read these attributes. Follow the steps in Using eDirectory Attributes with Custom Banners.
Custom banners lets you select the information you want displayed on the banner page. Some of the banner options are information contained in eDirectory. In order for the Print Manager to obtain this information, you must modify the trustee rights and give the Print Manager read rights to these properties. Because rights flow down the eDirectory tree, you can assign the trustee right at a container level above the users, or to the tree.
In iManager, click > .
Select the container or tree where you want to modify the rights.
Click , then select the Print Manager object.
Click , then select the check box.
Select the following attributes:
Click .
Ensure that at least the Read right is selected.
Click .
In Novell iManager, click > .
Browse to and select the printer you want to modify.
Click > .
Edit the gateway autoload command.
The following tables describe the gateway load commands and parameters that can be used.
Click to save the changes.
UNIX, Macintosh, and other LPR clients can print to iPrint printers using LPR.
IMPORTANT:In order for LPR to work, the printer agent name cannot contain spaces. If it does, you need to recreate the printer agent or select a different printer.
In Novell iManager, click > .
Browse to and select the printer you want to enable LPR printing for.
Click > .
Check the check box.
The and fields display information required when setting up printing for Macintosh, UNIX, or other LPR clients.
LPR Host: The server name where the Print Manager is running.
LPR Printer/Queue: The same as the printer agent’s name. The printer agent name cannot contain any spaces; otherwise, LPR does not work properly.
(Optional) Enable the following options:
Filter All LF to CRLF and Append FF to Jobs: Selecting this check box changes bytes in the LPR data stream of all incoming LPR print jobs from Line Feeds to Carriage Returns with Line Feeds and appends a Form Feed to the end of the print job. Typically, these changes are made at the LPR client; however, if you are sure of your users’ configurations, you can implement this option.
Address Ranges: Add an address range only if you want to restrict access to this printer to LPR clients within the address range. When the list is empty, all addresses are allowed to print (default).
Click or to update the printer settings.
From the UNIX, Macintosh or other LPR client, set up a printer using the LPR Host and LPR Printer/Queue information displayed in Step 4.