Eliminate Print Servers

Centralized Direct IP Printer Management

  • Central Management: Centrally manage all of your organization’s printers from a single web-based administrative console, with or without domains or trusts
  • Create Printers: Create new printer and have them automatically deployed to end users
  • Modify Printers: Modify printers settings (driver, port, name, duplex option, etc.) and have changes automatically made to printers on end user workstations
  • Delete Printers: Remove printers from workstations automatically

Self Service Portal

  • Single Enterprise Portal: Provides a single consistent Printer Installation portal across the entire enterprise with or without domains and trusts
  • Floor Plan Maps: Optional floor plan maps with single-click self-service printer installation
  • Auto Opens to Location: Enables end users to easily find nearby printers by auto opening to their current location
  • Reduce Helpdesk Calls: Empower end users to install printers on their own and reduce help desk calls

Mass Edit / Create / Manage Printers

  • Mass Create: Create 10 or 10,000 printers
  • Easy Management: Manage all of your printers and their attributes quickly and easily
  • Find & Replace: Use find-and-replace function to change hundreds or thousands of printer object’s deployment assignments, drivers, ports, comments, etc.

Automated Printer Deployment

  • No GPOs or Scripts: Manage printer deployment assignments without GPO’s, scripts, or print servers
  • Set Default Printer: Dynamically set the correct default printer
  • Eliminate Slow Logon: Automatic printer installation occurs post logon, eliminating slow log on times
  • Dynamic Deployments: Deploy printers by AD user, computer, group, container, OU, hostname or IP address range
  • Proximity Printing: Automatically install nearby printers
  • Citrix & VMware Support: Supports Citrix and VMware session and other virtual technologies

Printer Driver Profile Management

  • Pre-Configure Drivers: Configure driver settings such as dpi, duplexing, paper size, paper source, paper trays and so on
  • Advanced Settings: Displays actual driver’s interface so you can configure every possible function of the printer
  • Re-Apply Settings: Apply profile configuration only during first install or each time a user logs on or even after each print job

Port Management and Redirection:

  • Port Redirection: Redirect all print jobs from one printer to a similar printer via a single port redirection change
  • Advanced Options: Supports standard ports and others like LPR

Print Job Auditing

  • Print Job Reports: Quantify which network printers are the most utilized
  • USB Support: Supports auditing USB print jobs and provides reports
  • Advanced Data Points: date, time, printer, user, computer, color, monochrome, and document name
  • Coming soon – generate department based charge back reports and other advanced audit reports

SNMP Monitoring

  • Status View: view the online status of printers individually or for the entire fleet
  • Monitor Status: Capture SNMP notifications like ink low, paper low, paper empty, tray open, and more.
  • Alerts: Coming soon – receive custom SNMP notification alerts

Role Based Access Control

  • Distributed Management: Delegate printer management roles and permissions with optional AD and LDAP directory integration
  • Auditing: Complete administrative auditing of changes made by Printer Installer administrators

Queue Management

  • Central Queue Management: Identify and delete stuck print jobs from end user’s local workstation across the enterprise from the central administrator portal
  • Simplify Management: Because there are no print servers hosting printer queues, it is simple to search for the printer name in the administrator to manage it’s print jobs

Citrix / VMware Session Support

  • Deploy Printers: Deploy printers into Citrix sessions based on the name / location of the end point device connecting to the session
  • Self-Service: Enable session users to quickly install desired printers.
  • Printer Management: All of the features outlined above are supported in the Citrix / VMware environments

Driver Management

  • Universal Support: Works with all printer drivers and manufacturers
  • Driver Management: Centrally manage all of your printer drivers in a single driver repository and have driver updates automatically pushed to printers on end user workstations.

APIs

  • API: Integrate with other application by using the URL API’s provided
  • Integration: Add printers from other applications that contain printer names, physical location, and IP address

Printer Driver Caching

  • Plug-n-Play: Integrate with existing WAN caching technologies to avoid cross WAN driver download
  • Driver Cache Support: Cache drivers at multiple sites to support limited WAN connections

High Availability

  • No Single Point of Failure:  Maintain printing enterprise wide during WAN outage or Printer Installer host server failure with native direct IP capabilities
  • Redundancy: Configure a warm standby Printer Installer server for management high availability