Printers - Printix Administrator Manual

Lists the Printers

Select printer’s Printer name, ID or select and Modify to open the Printer properties page.
Select the printer’s number (2) of Queues or select and Queues to toggle the view of print queues.
Select individual printers and select Modify at the bottom of the screen. Select the check box at the top of the list to select all printers.
Select Refresh to refresh the list.
Select and Info to see information about the printer:
- ID, Name, Queues, Model, and Location.
- Network. The network the printer is on.
- Printer address. Select this to open the printer’s web page.
- Features. Color printing, 2-sided printing, and PDF printing.

View mode

Select View mode to control what printer information should be shown. The ID and Printer name columns are always shown.

Default – An overview of printers, their status and location. Columns:
- Queues, Status, Network, Address, Created, and Location.
Connection – Useful if you are using SNMP settings and different protocols. Columns:
- Status, Network, Address, MAC address, SNMP configuration, and Protocol.
Printix Go – Useful for managing Printix Go on your printers. Columns:
- Status, Installation, Vendor, Go version, Go configuration, and Sign in profile.
Customized – Build you own customized view mode with the printer information you select.

Select the printer’s number (2) of Queues or select and Queues to toggle the view of print queues.
Select Print queues to open the Print queues tab to Create, Modify or Delete print queues.
Select Name (Reception) to open the Print queue properties page.

Other ways to add printers:

Select Search
Enter printer ID, name, location or address.
Uppercase and lowercase letters are treated the same.

Select item to sort by this.
Select item again to toggle sort order: and
- Select ID to sort by printer ID.
- Select Printer name to sort by printer name.
- Select Created to sort printers by the date they were registered.
- Select Location to sort by printer location.

Optionally, select Refresh to get the latest status.
Optionally select the Cloud / Network communication status icon.
- It will show Monitored by and the name of the computer (COMPIX) that is monitoring the printer (ASD).
- If there is no computer online to monitor the printer, it will show Printer is not monitored.

Optionally, select the Network / Printer communication status icon.
- It will show OK if communication is working.
- Not responding is shown if the printer is disconnected or powered off.
- Missing printer information is shown if the SNMP configuration is wrong.
- This is not a printer is shown if the entered address does not point to a printer.

To delete a printer, select and Delete.
- Before deleting a Ricoh printer, Printix Go must be uninstalled, otherwise, you might see an error message when you next use a Print or Capture workflow on the printer.
Select the printer(s) and select Delete .
Select the check box at the top of the list to select all printers.