Printer Profile Provisioning

When combined with Print Driver Capture, Printer Profile Provisioning (3P) provides a powerful tool, allowing administrators to easily assign printers, default settings, and queues to users, based on IP ranges and user identity.

Printer Profile Provisioning became available with Print Server patch 21, and Desktop Client for Windows patch 10. New accounts created after these updates automatically have the new 3P up and running. If your account was created before these releases, you will need to migrate to 3P, learn more in Migration to 3P.

How it Works

1. Prepare a template computer

Install and configure all required print drivers on a clean system that represents your organization’s typical client environment.

2. Capture print drivers using Desktop Client

• Sign in as an administrator to Desktop Client.

• Capture the drivers for each required operating system.

• Group captured drivers into Print Driver Sets.

3. Define deployment rules using Provisioning Profiles

Target specific end users or end-user computers, assign them print drivers, name the client printing device users will see, and specify to which MyQ queue it will print.

4. Automatic deployment by Desktop Client

• MDC clients connected to the same MyQ server download the provisioning configuration.

• MDC installs the printers defined by the administrator, using the appropriate drivers for the given platform.