Adding and Configuring Local Printers

Local printers connect directly to your terminal server or are accessible via specific server ports. When you add a local printer in ScrewDrivers, you're creating a printer object that can be assigned to users and configured with specific drivers, ports, and naming schemes. This guide shows you how to set up local printers in the ScrewDrivers Administration Console, configure their properties, and assign them to users.

Adding a local printer

First, you'll create the printer object in the ScrewDrivers database. This establishes the basic printer identity that you'll configure in the following steps.

1. Confirm that the Objects pane is set to Printer objects. (You might need to click the Printers icon on the ScrewDrivers Administration Icon bar.)

	Before continuing, you can click the Expand/Collapse icon that is displayed next to the Local Printers folder to expand the folder and view all the local printer objects that have already been added, or you can search for specific local printer objects. See [To search for an object and view its information]

2. In the Objects pane, click Add Printer. The Add a New Printer dialog box opens. The dialog box displays icons for the types of printer objects that you can add to the ScrewDrivers database.

	Hold your mouse pointer over an icon to open a tooltip that displays the name of the object that the icon represents.

3. Click the Local Printer icon. The New Local Printer dialog box opens.

	You can also right-click the Local Printers folder in the Objects pane, and on the context menu that opens, click New Local Printer.

4. Enter the information for the new Local Printer object.

Option	Description
Name	The name of the printer as it'll appear in the Objects pane in the ScrewDrivers Administration.
Printer Name	The name of the printer as it'll appear to the users to which it's been assigned. The name should include the printer mapping to the server, for example, \server1\HP2025.

5. Click Add. The New Local Printer dialog box closes, and the newly added local printer appears in the Local Printers folder.

Configuring printer properties

Now that you've created the printer object, you'll configure its detailed settings. These properties determine how the printer behaves and appears to users.

6. Select the newly added Local Printer object.

	You might have to click the Expand/Collapse icon that is displayed next to the Local Printers folder to expand the folder and view the newly added Local Printer object.

The Information pane displays the Local Printer object form. The form groups together related configuration parameters for the selected Local Printer object. The General tab is the open tab.7. Configure the information for the local printer.

Option	Description
General tab
Printer Properties
Printer Name	The name of the printer as it will appear to the users to which it has been assigned. You specified this value in Step 4, but you can edit it here.
Location	Optional. Free text field for specifying the physical location of the printer, for example, Corporate, 5th floor.
Comment	Optional. Free text field for adding any pertinent information about the printer.
Shared as
Driver tab - The tab lists all the drivers that are available on the Terminal Server. Select the device driver for the printer. Click Refresh Drivers at any time to update the list with all the available drivers.
Printer Port tab - The tab lists the communication port types that are available for the printer. The port must exist on the Terminal Server for the printer to be created. Select one of three communication port types,--Local Port, ICA Port, or RDP Port--and then select the port.

8. On the Printer Naming tab, leave the printer naming scheme set to the default value of Printer Name (MACHINE:SESSION), or optionally, edit the printer naming scheme.

Step	Action
Use a default naming scheme	Select the naming scheme.
Edit and use a default naming scheme	1. Select the naming scheme.2. Do one or both of the following:• Select "Limit name component lengths," and then set the maximum value for any or all of the indicated components (Printer, Machine, and/or User.) The default value is ten.• Select which options in the printer name are to be replaced, and then leave a default replacement value as-is, or modify it as needed. For example, if you select "Replace backslashes () in the printer name with _, then, by default, an underscore replaces every backslash in the printer name. You can leave the underscore as-is, or you change it to another value such as an asterisk (*).
Create and use a custom naming scheme	Note: Special characters other than an exclamation point (!), backslash () or period (.) are allowed in any of the free text fields.1. Select Custom.2. Set the format of the scheme using Session ID and one or more of the following: Printer, Machine Name, and User. In addition to the Session ID, the name can have up to three components, but you can specify a single component (for example, Machine Name), two components (for example, Machine Name and Printer), or all three components (for example, Machine Name, Printer, and User). Caution: Tricerat does not support a format without a Session ID. A user could log in to multiple sessions, which can result in a naming conflict.3. Optionally, do one or both of the following:• Select "Limit name component lengths," and then set the maximum value for any or all of the indicated components (Printer, Machine, and/or User.) The default value is ten.• Select which options in the printer name are to be replaced, and then leave a default replacement value as-is, or modify it as needed. For example, if you select "Replace backslashes () in the printer name with _, then, by default, an underscore replaces every backslash in the printer name. You can leave the underscore as-is, or you change it to another value such as an asterisk (*).

9. Click Save.10. In the Objects pane, select the newly added local printer, and then drag the selected printer to the appropriate owner in the Assignments pane.

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