Define User Printers

Explanation

Use this activity to connect users to different printers in order to print reports on different printers.  This is useful when you wish to have a report printed only at a specific printer. Optionally you can define a printer for special character sets by defining a language. This provides the facility to use a specific printer for special character sets. This optional task is to be performed by a system administrator or equivalent person.

A user combined with a language can be connected to several printers, but only one printer can be the default. The printer used depends on the connections between the report and printer, and between the user and printer.

Prerequisites

This activity has the following prerequisites:

• The IFS Print Agent must be installed at the facility. 
• The user identity must first have been entered as a user in IFS/Deployment Administrator.
• The printers must be defined as logical printers in the Printer Definitions/Logical Printer window.
• A logical printer record must be defined.

System Effects

As a result of this activity:

• The user can print to different printers.

Window

Printer Definitions

Related Window Descriptions

Printer Definitions

Procedure

To perform this activity, follow these steps:

1. Open the Printer Definitions window and click the User Printer tab.
2. Create a new record.
3. In the User ID field, query for the user whose printers you want to define or select one from the List of Values.
4. Select a language from the List of Values if you want to define a printer for a special character set. This field is optional.
5. In the Available Printer list, select the printer to connect to the user.
6. To define the default printer, select the Default check box in the printer to use. Only one printer can be defined as the default printer.
7. Save the changes.