Fleet Management of Print Queues

Within the Print Management view, HP Web Jetadmin has the capability of installing queues and drivers onto multiple remote hosts. This fleet queue creation can be done remotely from the HP Web Jetadmin client interface and in a configuration session.

Users of the Print Management feature could be IT personnel in school districts. These personnel may have responsibility over desktop print functionality and print devices in remote and wide geographic distribution. On top of the remote distribution problem, large numbers of workstations and different restrictions apply.

Consider this problem:

●Each school in the district has obtained a color MFP.

●A dozen to several hundred student workstations could exist in each school.

●Staff are allowed to print color but students are not.

●IT has full administrative access to all of the workstations.

HP Web Jetadmin could be used in attaining substantial savings in an environment like this one. Pre- configuration could be used on drivers deployed to student workstations. All drivers and queues could be deployed through the Create Print Queue tool (Create Print Queue on page 262) and in very few configuration sessions. Travel to each of the schools could then be reduced to a bare minimum.

Driver Management

●HP’s Universal Print Driver

HP Web Jetadmin facilitates driver management. Drivers can be added to the HP Web Jetadmin host which acts like a driver repository. These drivers are installed on remote hosts where queue management is being performed. Some of these features can be locked.

Driver management in HP Web Jetadmin includes the following:

●Pre-configure driver (Pre-configure Driver on page 265).

●Upload driver to available drivers (Upload Driver to Available Drivers on page 266).

●Delete driver from available drivers (Delete a Driver on page 267).

●Retrieve driver from available drivers (Retrieve a Driver on page 267).

Supported drivers include:

●HP device specific drivers

●.INF install

HP’s Universal Print Driver

The HP Universal Print Driver Postscript (UPD-PS) is bundled with HP Web Jetadmin software and can be installed from any create or edit queue interface (Create Print Queue on page 262 or Edit Print Queue on page 264). Universal Print Drivers PCL5 and PCL6 can be added to HP Web Jetadmin through a .INF installation

The HP Universal Print Driver has pre-configure capability which enables you to specify print defaults such as duplex or grayscale. Some of these defaults can be locked so that users must always use certain features such as duplex.

When HP Web Jetadmin creates a queue using the HP Universal Print Driver, the driver and printer (specified in HP Web Jetadmin) are installed in traditional mode, which means that the printer and driver have none of

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