Dell Proximity Printing Solution User Manual

Dell™ Proximity

Printing Solution

Administrator’s Guide

Notes and Cautions

NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of

your computer.

CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if

instructions are not followed.

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Contents

Dell Proximity Printing Solution . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Requirements for setting up DPPS

Server Operating System

Server Hardware Requirements

Client Hardware and Software Requirements

Server Installation

Installating DPPS Client

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Downloading DPPS Client

Installing DPPS Client

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Updating DPPS Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

DPPS Administrator Mode Interface . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Connecting to the Server

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Menu Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Using the Main Interface

Floor Manager

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Managing Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Managing Floors

Managing Printers

Icon Manager

Adding an Icon

Adding a Filter

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Contents 3

Configuring Assistance Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

DPPS Client Mode Interface

Connecting to the Server

Selecting Your Home Printer

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Sending Print Jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Managing Active Print Jobs

Auto-Print Options

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4 Contents

Dell Proximity Printing Solution

Introduction

The Dell™ Proximity Printing Solution (DPPS) allows you to configure your
network printers so that end users can easily select a printer closest to them
while printing their documents.

Requirements for setting up DPPS

• A physical or virtual server to install DPP server. For more information on
DPP server requirements, see "Server Hardware Requirements" on page 6.

•A WiFi

• Network based printers.

• An IT professional with advanced knowledge of:

• A network infrastructure with

®

network with reasonably distributed access points for the

proximity printing feature.

NOTE: DPP does not support USB printers.

a

Linux

b

Microsoft® Active Directory® (AD)

c

Domain Name Services (DNS)

a

Microsoft Active Directory

b

Domain Controller (DC)

c

Domain Name Services

Server Operating System

The DPPS server uses Ubuntu Linux distribution for printer management
utilizing Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) 1.3.9. This allows for
portability across multiple OS clients and a simple unified interface for
server interactions.

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Server Hardware Requirements

NOTE: The specifications mentioned below are approximate and also relatively

apply to virtual machines.

Processor 2 GHz dual-core or 3 GHz single-core processor

Memory 2 GB (4 GB recommended for a large database)

Free hard disk space 10 GB

Client Hardware and Software Requirements

Processor No special requirements beyond what is necessary to run the

installed operating system

Memory No significant requirements beyond what is necessary to run the

Free hard disk space 25 MB hard disk space for installing the DPPS client. Some free

Operating system Windows

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installed operating system

hard disk space is also needed for the DPPS map cache

®

XP SP2 or higher, Windows Vista® SP1 or higher,

Windows 7

Server Installation

The DPPS server uses Linux as the base operating system.
See the DPPS Installation Guide for more information on supported Linux
releases and installation instructions.

Installating DPPS Client

You can download and install DPPS client from the Dell Support website
at support.dell.com.

Downloading DPPS Client

1

Go to

support.dell.com.

2

Click

Start Here

3

Click the icon below

4

Click

Select Model

5

Click

Printers

6

Click

Imaging Solutions

7

Click

Dell Proximity Printing Solution (DPPS)

8

Find the appropriate entry and click

9

Follow the on-screen instructions to download and save the MSI file
to your computer.

under any of the options.

Drivers and Downloads

.

.

.

.

Download

and then click

.

Confirm

.

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Installing DPPS Client

1

Open the file that you downloaded or were provided by your IT team.
The

Dell Proximity Printing Solution - InstallShield Wizard

2

Click

Next

. The message

3

Click

Install

. The message

4

Click

Finish

.

To run DPPS client as an administrator, start the program with the

-admin switch. For troubleshooting, you can additionally specify -debug
and -debughttp switches. The -debug switch enables logging all
activities. The -debughttp switch shows a connection dialog with all
active and inactive connections to the server, when you click the network
connectivity icon.

Ready to Install the Program

InstallShield Wizard Completed

appears.

appears.

appears.

Updating DPPS Client

You can update the DPPS client on the server by performing a package update.
Once the server has an updated client, end users connecting to the DPPS
server are automatically notified to update the client on their computers.

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DPPS Administrator Mode Interface

Connecting to the Server

You must set the server address when you launch DPPS client for the first time.

On the Change Server Name window, type the DPPS server name and click OK.

After you set the DPPS server address, the DPPS client automatically
connects to the local DPPS server and downloads the necessary maps and
information to your computer. Once the information is downloaded, you can
utilize the administrator mode of the DPPS client to manage printers across
multiple buildings and icons associated with the printers.

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