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Printer Project. Purpose of project Reducing printing cost and saving trees & water: Printing has reduced in RGA from 19 000 000 pages in 2009 to 13 000 000 in 2010 which is 6 000 000 pages less. 6L of water per page 3000 pages per tree
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Purpose of project • Reducing printing cost and saving trees & water: • Printing has reduced in RGA from 19 000 000 pages in 2009 to 13 000 000 in 2010 which is 6 000 000 pages less. • 6L of water per page • 3000 pages per tree • 6 000 000 divided by 5 to get the savings on paper and consumables • Do away with Novell (a business need) • To have secure printing - decrease unauthorised use • Centralised management • Access control solution – job are printed upon request
Progress of project: • New printers with the Safecom device already installed and the printers were placed strategically on campus. • Devices installed: 170 • Models: P4515dn, M3035xx, CP3525dn, CM6040 • Where: RGA’s, Library, a few departments and starting with the hostels • Old Novell queue’s had to be converted to Microsoft queue’s.
Conversion process: • A list was made of all Novell printers queue’s shown in Imanager. • New names were created for each printer queue e.g.: • AFRNED_K617_HP2025DN_PA (Old name) to S-AFRNED-K617-PR01 • S = Stellenbosch, K = Koshuis, R = RGA’s, T = Tygerberg • AFRINED = Department • K618 = Room number • PR01 = if there’s more than one of the same printers in the department it will continue with PR02, PR03 etc.
Conversion process: continue The names of the printers were also changed in RTAD as well as the domain name
Conversion process: continue Printer Manager was used to create the new queue’s and to set the necessary printer settings (for example: monochrome printing and duplexing):
Conversion process: continue 5. Web Jet Admin is then used to upgrade the printer’s firmware and to add 7 templates:
Conversion process: continue The last step is the Safecom administration
How this will affect our users: • Novell print queue’s will be ended at end of April 2011 • Users will be notified by email • Helpline and support personnel will have to help with the migration process
Steps to installing new print queue’s • for Push Printing: • PC must be on the domain • In the run command type the following: \\stbpushprint.stb.sun.ac.za and press enter.
The following screen will appear with all the print queue’s already created:
Double click on the new print queue corresponding with the old one. • The drivers will be installed automatically and no settings needs to be changed In the run command type the following: \\stbpushprint.stb.sun.ac.za and press enter. • as it’s already been done in Print Manager.
What if the PC is not joined to the domain: XP – the user will be prompt for a username and password. - remember to put stb\ and the username 2. Win 7 – We are in the process of writing a script which will automatically perform the connection.