Scan network for new printers

Principle

Watchdoc can scan the network for the printing devices installed on it (using SNMP protocol).

 

This discovery is done within a perimeter delimited by a location previously configured in Watchdoc.

A location, characterized by a network mask, allows a logical grouping of all the printing devices available in a specific site (company, agency, site, department, branch office, warehouse, etc.).

 

During discovery, Plug & Print scans the specified location to detect all devices associated with it.

For each detected printing device, it creates and tries to install a print queue.

Launch the discovery of printing devices

1. From the Plug & Print Management interface, click on the Plug & Print menu item:

2. in the top right menu, click on Discover printers on the network ;

3. In the Discover printers on the network box, select the location under which you want to start discovering the print devices to browse;

4. Click Validate to start the discovery operation:
   
   

    

5. in the top right menu, click on Scan network for new printers:

6. In the Scan network for new printers interface, select the location under which you want to start the discovery of the print devices to browse:

7. Click Validate to start the discovery operation:
   
   
   
   

 

→ the interface displays the progress of the operation. When the operation is finished, a cursor indicates that the operation is finished. This operation is displayed at the top of the operation list.

 

→ For any new print device discovered during this operation, Plug & Print installs the associated queue and displays it in the operation list: