Printers Tab Reference (Endpoint Client)

Printers Tab

When you open the ScrewDrivers Endpoint Client app, the Printers tab is the first thing you'll see. This is your control center for managing which printers are available in your remote sessions and how they behave.

The tab shows you all the printers available on your client workstation - both locally attached printers and network printers that are turned on for remote use. They're arranged in priority order, which determines how many printers get built on the server when you start a session. Higher priority printers get built first, which is especially important if your administrator has set a limit on the total number of printers per session.

	Your ScrewDrivers administrator sets the base printer priority. If you're expecting a printer to be available (including your default printer) and it doesn't show up in your session, contact your system administrator - they can help sort it out.

Managing Printer Priority

You've got control over which printers get priority in your sessions. To change a printer's priority, simply click and drag it to a new position in the list. You can also turn printers on or off regardless of their priority - when a printer is turned on, the Session Agent makes it available to you once you log into your remote session.

Printer-Specific Settings

Each printer on the Printers tab can have its own specialized settings. Select a printer to see and adjust these options based on your needs.

Print Job Settings

Two key options control how your print jobs are handled:

Display Second Print Dialog: By default, you won't see the Client Print Spooler dialog box when you print. But if you turn this option on, you'll get an additional dialog when your print job starts spooling. This is where you can access advanced printing functions like stapling, booklet printing, and hole punching - really useful if you're working with a sophisticated printer that supports these features.

Output Separator Page: When enabled, this adds a cover page to your print job with details like your username and job information. It's helpful in busy print environments where you need to identify your documents quickly.

Print Job Rendering Options

These advanced options help you work around printing issues related to fonts, scaling, or graphics. You'll typically only need these if you're experiencing problems with print output.

Print-As-Image: This converts each page of your print job to a BMP image, which can solve font and layout problems. However, there's a trade-off - uncompressed images use significant bandwidth. If you enable this option, be thoughtful about DPI settings. Each time you double the DPI, you're sending four times as much data. Generally, 300 DPI provides excellent results without excessive bandwidth use.

Font Embedding: This feature ensures that fonts display correctly even when they're not installed on your client. You've got three modes to choose from:

• Embed All Fonts (the default): When fonts aren't available on your client, ScrewDrivers sends temporary copies with the print job, then removes them afterward. This keeps your print jobs looking right without permanently installing fonts.
• Pre-Render Embedded: Missing fonts get sent as images and integrated back into the job file. This works well when you've got just a few problematic fonts.
• Pre-Render All: Every font gets sent as an image, whether it's on your client or not. You'd typically only use this option when Tricerat support recommends it - it's designed for situations where your client's fonts are unreliable or there are mismatches between the Session Agent and your client.

Max Color Quality: By default, images render in High (TrueColor) at 24-bit. You can step down to Medium (16-bit), Low (8-bit), or Monochrome (1-bit) to reduce file size. The difference between 24-bit and 16-bit is barely noticeable, but as you go lower, you'll see more impact on image quality. It's all about finding the right balance for your needs.

Compress Images: This applies lossy compression to images in your documents, shrinking the spool size at the cost of some image quality. It's a good option when you're printing over limited bandwidth and image perfection isn't critical.

Minimize Spool: This is turned on by default and works by breaking large images into smaller chunks. It lets data stream to the printer faster and allows the printer to discard image data as it's rendered, which reduces memory usage. You'll generally want to leave this enabled.

Force Grayscale: When you turn this on, all images convert to 8-bit grayscale, which reduces file size. It's perfect for situations where you don't need color output.

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