Lantronix 900-603 Configuring Printers through Discovery, Configuration, xPrintServer User Guide

4: Configuration

Discovery: The Admin user may activate Discovery at will through the xPrintServer user interface any time after the xPrintServer is up and running.

Note: Only printers listed among the Lantronix xPrintServer published list of printers will be auto- provisioned after Discovery (see http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/mobile-print-servers/supported-printer-list.html). Configuration options to manually add a printer and modify advanced printer settings are available under Printers > Advanced. Use these advanced options only if instructed to do so by Lantronix Technical Support.

Configuring Printers through Discovery

The Admin user may utilize the instructions to discover and provision network-connected printers installed since the xPrintServer last started up or printers on other networks if their IP addresses have been added (see Adding a Printer IP Address).

1.Login to the xPrintServer user interface (see Logging In) as the Admin user.

2.Click the Printer tab to access the Printer page.

A list of all currently configured printers will be listed on this page.

All printers which were discovered and configured at the xPrintServer startup will also be listed here with “Auto Discovered” listed under the Location column.

Figure 4-1 Printers Auto-Discovered upon xPrintServer Startup

3.Click on any printer to retrieve additional information on that printer. In Figure 4-2below, the second printer in the list was clicked and the printer details in the grey fields below appeared at the bottom of the list of printers.

Figure 4-2 Printer Information

Description	Location
Name	Status
IP Address

4.Click the Discovery link to the left of the page. A Printer Auto Discovery Report will appear showing the date/time the xPrintServer automatically discovered, the number of configured printers (at the last startup of the device) and associated downloaded drivers.

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