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Printing from a USB flash drive
You can print files on a USB flash drive to the EX/i Print Server. To do so, save PS, PCL, EPS,
TIFF, and PDF files to the USB flash drive and download them directly to the EX/i Print
Server. You can print files that originated on Mac OS X or Windows computers.
You can print files automatically from a USB flash drive to one of the standard print queues
on the EX/i Print Server (Print, Hold, or Direct) or to published virtual printers (if
supported). Verify with your administrator that these connections are published in Setup.
For more information about printing, see
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1 Set printing options.
• In Configure, click Network > Port > USB.
• Select Enable USB Port.
• For Default Queue, select the connection to which the EX/i Print Server downloads files
that do not specify a connection.
• Set USB Media Autoprint to Print All.
2 On a computer, create folders at the top (root) level of the USB flash drive named Print, Hold,
and Direct.
3 Save the files from the computer to the USB flash drive.
When you connect the USB flash drive to the EX/i Print Server, files copied to the Print,
Hold, and Direct folders are downloaded to the corresponding print connection on the EX/i
Print Server.
Files copied to the root level of the USB flash drive (and any folder below the root level that is
not named for a print connection) are downloaded to the queue that you configured for USB
printing.
Prepare the USB flash drive with the correct folder structure and appropriate files before the
USB flash drive is connected to the EX/i Print Server. Because file processing begins as soon as
you connect the USB flash drive to the EX/i Print Server, there is no time to do any file
management tasks, such as moving files to a different folder or deleting files.
4 Remove the USB flash drive from the computer and connect it to the USB port on the EX/i
Print Server.
For the location of the USB flash drive port, see
Make sure that the USB flash drive is properly stopped before you disconnect it from the
computer.