Adding a virtual printer
When you click the Add button, you can see the list of all printers existing on the computer the agent runs on. You should select one or several printers virtual printers should be created for.
On the next page the program offers you to choose the method of configuring the virtual printers. There are two options to choose from:
- Configure each printer manually
- Configure the printers according to one template
The second option allows you to specify rules according to which these or those properties of the virtual or physical printer should be changed.
The next page shows the final set of properties for each of the new virtual printers. It is possible to change the properties in this step.
The properties of each virtual printer are grouped into the following categories:
- Virtual Printer Properties
Here you can see all settings defining the properties of the new virtual printer:
- its future name
- whether it is necessary to provide shared access to it. If the access is provided, specify the shared name to publish it under in Active Directory.
- whether to copy the access permissions for the printer from the access properties of the physical printer
- Redirection account credentials: the login and password that will be used to establish a connection to the physical printer if it is not a local, but shared one. It is important to specify the correct login and password because otherwise the print job will not be redirected.
- Physical printer properties
Here you can see all settings defining the properties of the physical printer the virtual one is created for:
- its name after the virtual printer is created. For example, you can rename it.
- whether it is necessary to provide shared access to it. If the access is provided, specify the shared name to publish it under in Active Directory.
- Options
Here you specify what printer name should be shown in statistics: the name of the virtual printer or the name of the physical printer the virtual one is created for.
Also, this section allows to create the default settings which will be used when redirecting a print job to the real printer. Clicking on Select button opens a dialog window which allows to adjust settings of a real printing unit.
While adding a virtual printer, you should stick to the following rule: create the virtual printer so that it does not differ from the physical printer visually. In its turn, the physical printer must be as hidden from the end user as possible. As you can see in the picture above, the wizard offers you to create a virtual printer with the same name as that of the physical printer and rename the latter to avoid discrepancies. At the same time, you are offered to close shared access to the physical printer and copy its access permissions to the properties of the virtual printer.
