1. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Overview Printing Strategy Ethernet Print Devices Printer Shares Hybrid Printer Strategy Managing Printer Use

2. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Printing Strategy

3. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Printing Strategy Why? What is the alternative? – Of course, you can’t toss it all and start over Purchasing uniformly Installing uniformly Connecting appropriately

4. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Printing Strategy Print Devices by connection type Direct Cabled: Parallel or USB Ethernet Share – Includes Print Server strategy – Sharing computer may be direct-cable to print device or via Ethernet (or even via another share)

5. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Printing Strategy ShoppingMicrosoft PrinterHardwareSoftware “Print Device”Don’t need this silly term Hardware Terminological oddity #1

6. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Printing Strategy Common senseMicrosoft Add Printer Wzrd Ethernet PrinterNetwork (print device) Local (printer entry) (new port) Print ShareNetwork or Shared Network (printer) Terminological oddity #2

7. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Printing Strategy Direct cable connect EthernetShare from another host Who can Install Admins Any user Who sees and can use All users Users who have installed

8. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Ethernet Print Devices

9. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Ethernet Print Devices: Installing Printer Who may install: Admins Who sees it: All Users

10. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Ethernet Print Devices: Installing IP Address and IP hostname – Probably gets one from DHCP – To see address, print internal test page, or read off of LCD – Probably want to change it, to protect from DHCP changes. (When not?) 4 th octet above 231.

11. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Ethernet Print Devices: Installing – Ways to change: LCD control panel. HTTP interface. Old HP network tool. HP tool built into recent driver installers. – Also change Method – Consider using name instead. Either cryptic generated one, or make your own. “LABLASER” for example.

12. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Ethernet Print Devices: Installing Printer Manufacturer’s disk 95 and 98, old HP network tool 2000 and XP, regular MS Add Printer wizard – Logged on as admin – Add as local, clear checkbox for Auto detect PnP – Can reuse existing TCP/IP port? – Or create new port (continued)

13. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Ethernet Print Devices: Installing Printer 2000 and XP, regular MS Add Printer wizard (continued) – Or create new port – Give IP numerical address of print device – OR give hostname of print device – After creating port, Add Printer wizard continues – All users should see that printer (suspend PPT, do live demo of Wizard)

14. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Printer Shares

15. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Printer Shares: Installing Who may install: Any User Who sees it: Users who have installed Problem: many student users

16. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Printer Shares: Installing Install as local on hosting computer. Share from there. Choose share name systematically. On other computers, install as Network Printer. (In MS sense.) Short cut: Browse or Search to print share, right click, choose Install or Connect.

17. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Printer Shares: Installing for many users Problem: many student users Answer 1: Let them run Add Printer Wizard Answer 2: Deploy short cheap location- specific script (example on next slide) Answer 3: Site-wide automatic, sophisticated script. – See Revere – Best with Print server

18. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Printer Shares: Installing for many users Short cheap location-specific script dim objNet set objNet = CreateObject("WScript.Network") objNet.AddWindowsPrinterConnection "\\I5560w000021798\HP2000C" ' objNet.SetDefaultPrinter "\\I5560w000021798\HP2000C"

19. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Hybrid Printer Strategy

20. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Hybrid Printer Strategy Corresponding Pros and Cons of Ether and Share ShareEthernet Host must be upNo issue Computational burden on host No issue Can use VM or disk to spool on host Limited to onboard RAM, queue backs up on sending machines

21. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Hybrid Printer Strategy ShareEthernet Print device and host must be close Anywhere In multiuser context, must install for each user Admin installs once for all Fussy host name to type or fussy network browse Fussy IP address to fiind and change Manage queue, trace sender Little or no management

22. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Hybrid Printer Strategy Print Device uses Ethernet Interface One Host connects to Print Device over Ethernet – If possible, takes sole control of it That Host shares the Printer Other computers use the share

23. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Hybrid Printer Strategy Is it a panacea? Best of both worlds? No. Is it the worst of both worlds? No. Advantages: – Can install by script – Can manage queue Disadvantages: – Host must be on – Processing burden on host – Need local install for each user

24. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Hybrid Printer Strategy Those disadvantages not so big if the host is your server – Server is expected to be up – Server is less likely to be overburdened – Host name is not so obscure, and there’s just one. Helpful both for manual Wizard use and script.

25. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Managing Printer Use

26. 28 June 2005 CUIP Tech Coordinators Reboot Camp Managing Printer Use Ethernet print device – little or no control Share – watch queue Hybrid (or Print Server) – manage like Share Separate teacher and student submissions – Multiple printer entries for single print device – Use domain user/groups to control printing permissions

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