Manage Existing Printers

The Admin Console provides a setting enabling Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic) to start managing printers already installed on end user workstations. The value of this setting is that you do not have to uninstall and reinstall printers on workstations for Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic) to recognize and manage those printers. The following steps describe the process for configuring Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic) to start managing previously installed printers on the workstations.

TCP / IP Printer Settings

Here is a brief overview of the settings used to manage existing printers. To access the Client settings go to Tools then Settings then Client.

Automatically manage all end-user TCP / IP printers
Enable this option to use Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic) to manage previously installed printers on a workstation that match up with a printers in the Admin Console.
Enable auto-management item level targeting
Item level targeting allows you to designate specific users, groups, IP ranges, etc., impacted by the setting above. Click Show Filter to define targets. If you are rolling out Vasion Print (formerly PrinterLogic) to a new environment, item-level targeting lets you do so in segments rather than all at once.
TCP-IP Printer Settings - automatically manage printers option

Additional Settings

Control end user interactions with TCP / IP printers and printer ports.

Allow non-administrators to modify / delete TCP / IP printers
Enable this option to allow end users to alter the settings or delete TCP / IP printers installed via the Self-service Portal.
Allow end-users to capture printer ports for legacy applications
Enable this option to add an icon to the system tray menu so end users can capture printer ports (such as LPT1) and direct the output to a TCP / IP printer.

Addtional TCP/IP Printer Settings on the Client Settings page

Item Level Targeting

You can restrict the auto-management functionality to a specific set of devices, sites, or users. A use case for this would be if you were doing a staged roll-out of the solution. Rolling the Client out to one site, running tests, rolling the Client out to a second site, running more tests, and then pushing the Client to the rest of the organization. The following steps describe the process for restricting the Client from managing existing printers to specific devices, sites, or users.

  1. Log in to the Admin Console.
  2. Navigate to Tools then Settings then Client.
  3. In the TCP / IP Printer Settings section, select Automatically manage all end-user TCP / IP Printer, if it is not already selected.
  4. Select Enable auto-management item-level targeting.
  5. Select Show Filter....
  6. Select Add and select one of the options.

    1. Object types include the options for Active Directory (user, computer, group), IP address range, hostname, MAC address, and by Chromebook serial number or asset ID. Each object type uses it's own setup wizard. Added object types appear in the Auto-Management Filter section.

      Item-level filter options

  7. Select the type of object you want to use to filter the workstations.
  8. Select Save

Auto-Management Filter pop-up with a specific AD group added for filtering.