Prepare and Capture Template Printers

As a first step, you will want to create your print driver configurations. After that, you will capture them, upload them to the MyQ X server, and finally test the setup.

1. Prepare template printers (install print drivers, create system printers and ports, and connect everything to ensure you have printers that are ready for printing).

2. Capture template printers (select printers in the MyQ Desktop Client, and upload them on the Print Server).

Prepare Template Printers

Install Print Drivers

The first step for this deployment is to collect the print drivers you want to install and create printers as if you were doing it on a user’s machine. Source these drivers from the manufacturers' download pages.

Recommendations for print drivers:

• Use official manufacturer’s drivers.

• Preferably, use device-specific or universal drivers in a traditional mode configured on a physical device. Universal drivers in dynamic mode might display prompts to the user to search devices on the network and also some drivers, e.g. HP Universal Print Driver, may not allow for print in color when not preconfigured for a specific model.

• In a mixed fleet environment, try selecting drivers published for your target devices to achieve the best compatibility. You might be able to print successfully to a device even through the driver of a different manufacturer thanks to MyQ’s cross-vendor printing support, but you will not get all the functionalities of the device.

Create Printers and Assign Print Drivers

1. Add your printers in the usual way:

   1. Windows: Control Panel/Settings – Devices & Printers – Add manually

   2. macOS: System Settings – Printers & Scanners – + option or via CUPS configuration

2. Select the installed driver in the printer’s settings:

   1. Windows: Control Panel/Settings – Devices & Printers – open a printer – Printer properties – Driver or in the Start menu – search and open “Print Management” – Print servers – Printers

   2. macOS: during printer creation or, if the printer already exists, via CUPS configuration

3. Assign a TCP/IP port to the printer:

   1. Windows: Control Panel/Settings – Devices & Printers – open a printer – Printer properties – Port or in the Start menu – search and open “Print Management” – Print servers – Printers

   2. macOS: during the printer creation or, if the printer already exists, via CUPS configuration

The queue name in the LPR port can be used to automatically attach the print driver configuration profile to a queue. If a queue with the same name already exists in MyQ, the profile is automatically assigned to it. This way you can instantly deploy or update the driver without further configuration.

4. Configure the desired driver’s capabilities and settings such as finishing and other preset options.

   1. Windows: Printer Properties – Advanced – Printing Defaults

      

   2. macOS: during the printer creation or, if the printer already exists, via CUPS configuration

5. Test your configuration by printing to a device directly or by printing to a MyQ queue and checking Job properties in the Web Interface.

Capture Driver and Settings

1. Run the MyQ Desktop Client on the template computer.

2. Sign in to the Desktop Client as a user with Administrator or Manage settings rights.

3. Right-click on the MyQ Desktop Client system tray icon to open the context menu and select Capture print driver, a dialogue is opened with a list of printers.

4. Select printers that are using the drivers you want to capture.

5. Specify the name of the print driver configuration profile; if it does not exist in MyQ already, a new profile with this driver will be created. If you specify an existing profile, the driver will be added to it. Read about print driver configuration profiles below.

6. Once you select all required printers and specify the profiles they should be uploaded in, click Upload. Drivers will be compressed into ZIP files and uploaded to the MyQ Print Server.

About Print Driver Configuration Profiles

Configuration profiles for print drivers effectively “bundle” a collection of drivers that will be installed when a queue(s) is/are deployed. In a profile, you can have one instance of a print driver for every supported OS (Windows x64, Windows ARM, macOS).

When you assign a profile to a queue, MDC will install the driver that particular platform runs on automatically.

MyQ Driver Store

Once this setup is finished, confirm that the print drivers were successfully uploaded to the MyQ Print Server you see present in the driver store (Settings – Print Drivers).