Managing Printers
Printers Option
Adding a Printer
Deleting a Printer
Viewing and Managing Print Jobs
Printer Properties
Printer Drivers
Installing Printers on Clients
Related System Messages
Troubleshooting the Appliance
Printers Option
After Printers is selected from the menu in the web interface, the Printers page is displayed. On this page,
administrators can:
view and manage print jobs
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add printers
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modify existing printers
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delete a printer (and all of its jobs)
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Printers Page
Field Names
Description
Printer Name
Name of the printer as entered in the Printer Name field on the Add Printer page in the web
interface. This name is displayed in Network Neighborhood as an available printer configured
on the appliance. The printer name can be up to 79 characters long, including alphanumeric
characters and the following special characters: _ - . ?
(Printer names longer than 12 characters might cause problems with Windows 9x and ME or
MS-DOS clients. Various LPD implementations might also have length restrictions.)
IP Address or
Hostname
IP address or hostname of the printer that will be servicing the print jobs in this queue. This
may be the IP address or the DNS name of the network printer. In order to use the DNS
name, a DNS server address must be configured on the appliance in the
Microsoft
Networking Settings page
.
Managing Printers
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