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Step by Step Configuration -- Printer Tracking / Monitoring in Print Server Environment

Step 1. Download and extract the 30-day trial version of PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager, then double click setup.exe to install PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager.

Note: If PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager is installed on Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 2008, go to the installation folder (e.g. C:\Program Files\PrinterAdmin Software\PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager), right click “PJAdmin.exe”, then click “Properties”, select “Compatibility” tab, set "Run this program as an administrator" in Privilege Level and Click "Change settings for all users" button, Set "Run this program as an administrator" in Privilege Level in "Compatibility for all users" tab. Repeat this for "PrintSaver.exe".

Option 1: PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager is installed on a computer that is not a print server e.g. \\CentralComputer

Option 2: PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager is installed on your current print server e.g. \\PrintServer

Option 1: PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager is installed on a computer that is not a print server e.g. \\CentralComputer

In this demo, there are three print servers: printserver1, printserver2 and printserver3 in your network.   Add network printers to the computer \\CentralComputer that has PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager installed.

 

Step 2. Choose Start -> Printers and Faxes (or Devices and Printers).

 

Step 3. Click "Add a printer" button to start the Add Printer Wizard, and then click Next.

 

Step 4. Click the "A network printer" option and follow the instructions on screen.

 

 

Step 5. The printer icon will be added to your Printers and Faxes folder (or Devices and Printers folder).  The network printer names are like "Printer-Name on Print-Server-Name".

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Step 6. Click Start -> All Programs -> CZ Solution -> PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager 6.0 to run PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager for the first time. If Preferences window doesn't appear, click menu Print Jobs -> Preferences.

Step 7. Click Refresh, select the printers you want to monitor in the list of "Available Local / Network Printers" and click Add to add them to the list of "Monitored Printers", click Save, and then click Exit.

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Step 8. All print jobs sent to these network printers will be tracked in PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager -> Printed Jobs.

Step 9. In Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Services, if PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager service has not been installed yet, click PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager menu Tools -> Install Windows service.

Note: The default account to run PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager service is the Local System account that can't access network printers (e.g. \\print_server\ shared_printer). In Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Services --> PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager, change the Local System account to the account with which you added all network printers in Printers and Faxes (or Devices and Printers) and has administrator rights on all network printers, then restart the PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager service.


Option 2: PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager is installed on your current print server e.g. \\PrintServer

In this demo, PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager is installed on \\PrintServer with three shared printers: HP Designjet Z3100 44in Photo, HP LaserJet 4250 PCL6 and HP LaserJet 5000 Series PS.

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Step 2. Click Start -> All Programs -> CZ Solution -> PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager 6.0 to run PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager for the first time. If Preferences window doesn't appear, click menu Print Jobs -> Preferences.

Step 3. Click Refresh, select the printers you want to monitor in the list of "Available Local / Network Printers" and click Add to add them to the list of "Monitored Printers", click Save, and then click Exit.

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Step 4. All print jobs sent to these shared printers will be tracked in PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager -> Printed Jobs.

Step 5. In Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Services, if PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager service has not been installed yet, click PrinterAdmin Print Job Manager menu Tools -> Install Windows service.

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