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Creating printers and templates

Which protocol?

Simplifications

Templates

What are tem­plates?

Which properties are inherited?

Template names

Manually created printers

Printer names

client_name

printer_ID

printer_name

Example for TCP/IP

Example for ICA/RDP/PCoIP


There’s one last step after installing and configuring the ThinPrint Engine on the remote desktops (terminal servers or virtual desktops): setting up printers on the ThinPrint Ports.


Which protocol?

If you are working with several ThinPrint Ports, each with a different protocol, then check port configuration before printer installation to see which ThinPrint Port supports what protocol.


Simplifications


Templates

What are tem­plates?

With ThinPrint, a template is a printer in the server’s printers folder from which the client or session printers created with AutoConnect inherit their properties (see Auto­Connect).

The _#ThinPrint Output Gateway template appears in the server’s printers folder after installation of ThinPrint Engine.


Which properties are inherited?

Among other things, client printers that are created by AutoConnect in the remote desktop session’s printers folder inherit the following properties from templates:

  • Number of copies, orientation, preview options, compression settings and page adjustment (scale to fit or adjust margins); these are inherited always from the templates.
  • The other properties (e. g., paper trays, paper format, color, print resolution, and print on both sides (duplex) are retrieved from the ThinPrint Client. These will be also inherited from the templates if sending properties from the ThinPrint Cli­ent to the ThinPrint Engine is disabled.
  • (Native) printer driver or Driver Free Printing (TP Output Gateway)
  • Printer port and thus:
    • Bandwidth
    • Print protocol (TCP/IP, ICA, RDP, PCoIP)
    • Printing with or without the ThinPrint Connection Service
    • Printing with or without print data encryption
    • Port pooling
    • Naming convention for ThinPrint printers


Template names

Network protocolNames of printer objects (for templates)
TCP/IP, ICA, RDP, PCoIPEither:_#printer
Example: _#Kyocera FS-850
Or:_#class
Example: _#HPLaser

Printers can be connected via a template with a specific name (e. g., _#printer) if their printer name or class name corresponds with the template name (after the #). Using class names is sensible if printers with different names shall use the same tem­plate (this is possible if the driver in the template is appropriate for the different cli­ent printers). The underscore (“_”) marks the template as such and is replaced with client-specific information for the automatically created printers.


Manually created printers

If you let AutoConnect automatically create all client printers in the sessions, then you only need to create templates and select the naming convention in the port con­figuration (see Advanced tab) once. If you also want to create printers on the server manually, though, please also refer to the following information.

For simplicity’s sake, only standard addressing is considered here; reversed addressing can be found in the chart in Naming convention, and addressing Thin­Print Connection Service Ports is explained in detail in ThinPrint Connection Ser­vice.  It is irrelevant to a ThinPrint printer name whether the object represents a tra­ditional (native) printer driver or the Output Gateway “printer driver”. The ThinPrint printer name is composed according to the network protocol in use:


Printer names

Network protocolNames of printer objects
TCP/IPEither: printer_name#client_name:printer_ID
Example: Kyocera FS-850#client1:3
Or: printer_name#IP_address:printer_ID
Example: Kyocera FS-850#191.168.1.17:3
ICA / RDP / PCoIPEither: printer_name#user_name:printer_ID
Example: Kyocera FS-850#administrator:3
Or: printer_name#:printer_ID
Example: Kyocera FS-850#:3
LPDEither: printer_name#client_name
Example: Kyocera FS-850#printer1
Or
: printer_name#IP_address
Example: Kyocera FS-850#191.168.1.18


client_name

Client name with TCP/IP and LPD means the real name of the client in the network (= host name). Alternatively, the client’s IP address can be used; this is especially necessary when there are difficulties with name resolutions

Note! With TCP/IP it is possible to send print data to any client computer run­ning a ThinPrint Client – independent of the remote desktop session.


printer_ID

At the client (i. e., a Workstation, a thin client or terminal, a ThinPrint Hub or a local print server), the ThinPrint Client automatically assigns every installed printer an ID. The printer_ID can be omitted if there is only one printer installed on the client, or if printing should take place on the ThinPrint Client’s current printer.


printer_name

The printer name can be anything you like. It is nonetheless recommended that it is the same as the printer name at the client.


Example for TCP/IP

Client:

client nameclient1
IP address192.168.1.17
printer designationHP LaserJet 1200 PCL

ThinPrint Client assigned this printer ID 2.

Server:

printer nameHP LaserJet 1200 PCL#client1:2
     orHP LaserJet 1200 PCL#192.168.1.17:2


Example for ICA/RDP/PCoIP

The ICA, the RDP and the PCoIP protocols assume all communication with the client, including the client’s unambiguous identification. The print jobs are sent automatically to the client from whose remote desktop session the print data was created. The printer name must therefore only contain a designation of the printer and of course its ID.

A Kyocera FS-850 should print via ThinPrint with ICA. For example, if multiple printers have been installed and the ThinPrint Client has assigned ID 3 to the printer, the printer name could be:

Laserdrucker#:3 (“#” before “:”)
or
Kyocera# :3 (blank before “:”)
or
Kyocera FS-850#_:3 (underscore before “:”)

If the Kyocera FS-850 is the current printer (in the ThinPrint Client), then this is sufficient: Laserdrucker

 

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