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

28 June 2005CUIP Tech Coordinators

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Overview

Printing Strategy Ethernet Print Devices Printer Shares Hybrid Printer Strategy Managing Printer Use


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Printing Strategy


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Printing Strategy

Why? What is the alternative?– Of course, you can’t toss it all and start over

Purchasing uniformly Installing uniformly Connecting appropriately


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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)


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Printing Strategy

Shopping Microsoft

Printer Hardware Software

“Print Device” Don’t need this silly term

Hardware

Terminological oddity #1


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Printing Strategy

Common sense Microsoft

Add Printer Wzrd

Ethernet Printer Network

(print device)

Local

(printer entry)

(new port)

Print Share Network or Shared

Network

(printer)

Terminological oddity #2


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Printing Strategy

Direct cable connect

Ethernet Share from another host

Who can Install

Admins Admins Any user

Who sees and can use

All users All users Users who have installed


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Ethernet Print Devices


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Ethernet Print Devices: Installing Printer

Who may install: Admins Who sees it: All Users


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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?) 4th octet above 231.


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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.


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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)


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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)


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Printer Shares


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Printer Shares: Installing

Who may install: Any User Who sees it: Users who have installed Problem: many student users


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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.


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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


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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"


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Hybrid Printer Strategy


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Corresponding Pros and Cons of Ether and Share Share Ethernet

Host must be up No 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


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Share Ethernet

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


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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


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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


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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.


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Managing Printer Use


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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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Documents

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