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Papercut Print Deploy

This is a relatively new Papercut feature that allows you to push print queues to none AD joined PCs and Macs. I've made a short video that goes over the main points below and some notes follow that.


Before you begin you need to fully configure Papercut and have a test VM that you can use (not intuned and with no printers on it at all - remove all the defaults).
Make sure Mobility Print is deployed and the print queues you want to deploy are published.
On the Test VM follow this procedure:
Once the print queues are installed - make sure you change the Drives to the Kyocera ones and set the defaults.
On the Print Server edit the config file:
Change useridentitymethod to “prompt”
IntervalSecs = 300
MinRandomOffsetSecs = -60
MaxRandomOffsetSecs = 60
Stop and then start the Print Deploy Service.
Deploy via intune. This must be done on the Print Server:
Don’t be tempted to deploy the msi! Follow the above instructions to the letter.
Configure the text and logo of the dialogue:
An example file (name en.json in the UK) :
{
"Title": "Username and password",
"InstallingDone1": "You're all set!",
"InstallingDone2": " You can close this window while your printers install in the background.",
"Close": "Close",
"Instructions": "Your Google username and password are required so that the right printers are added to your computer.",
"Username": "Username e.g. username@yourdomainname",
"Password": "Password - your Google one",
"SignIn": "Sign in and add printers"

}

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