Printer configutation

[Former Member]

Hello,

Can any tell me how we can configur 10 different types of printers in 1 shot.

Regards,

Sekhar.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Sekhar,

Assume you have no printers defined in your server. Now u have to define 10 printers.

First you will manually define 1 printer in SPAD.

Now SPAD-> Output Devices -> Display->Utilities -> Export Devices -> Give a path say C:\printer.txt -> Select frontend ->Select Export ->Select Execute Export -> Output Device: * -> Click on 'Execute'

Now in your local machine(frontend) -> Goto C:\printer.txt

For each printer defined you will find an entry like...

• DEVICE = {

NAME = "<name>"

PADEST = "<name>"

PATYPE = "<device type>"

PAMODEL = ""

PACLASS = "P"

PAARCHIVER = ""

PALANGU = "<cover page language>"

PADISABLED = ""

PANOQUERY = ""

PADUPCOPY = ""

PADUPLEX = ""

PASTORELOC = ""

PADFLTUTTL = ""

PADFLTSTTL = ""

PASYNC = "X"

PAMONI = ""

PASTANDORT = "<location>"

PAMSG = "<location>"

PAMSSERVER = "<spool server>"

PAMETHOD = "<host spool access method>"

PAPROSNAME = "<host printer>"

PALOMS = ""

PALPRCMD = ""

PALPDHOST = "<destination host>"

PALPDPORT = "0"

PACONNTIME = "0"

PAREADTIME = "0"

PATRAYS = "0"

PAXSHIFT = "0"

PAYSHIFT = "0"

PAXSHUNIT = "MM"

PAYSHUNIT = "MM"

PACRYPTMOD = ""

PACRYPTMET = ""

PANOVSERVR = ""

PAPOOLART = ""

PATRACE2 = ""

PATRACEF = ""

PAPROTDATA = ""

PAPROTCMD = ""

PAPROTRES = ""

PAKEEPFILE = ""

CHGNAME1 = ""

CHGTSTMP1 = ""

CHGSAPREL1 = ""

CHGSAPSYS1 = ""

PADEVGRP = ""

COLORPRT = ""

PRINTMODE = ""

INPUTTRAY = ""

PANOCHOICE = ""

}

Copy the above lines for each printer and change the parameters accordingly...So if you have 10 printers, there will be 10 similar entries..

Now save the file as C:\printer_new.txt

Now import this file the same way u exported it...

SPAD-> Output Devices -> Display->Utilities -> Import Devices -> Give the path C:\printer_new.txt -> Select frontend ->Select Import ->Select Execute Import -> Output Device: * -> Click on 'Execute'

Go to SPAD -> Output Devices -> Display to check if all the devices are there