Purpose of project
1. Reducing printing cost and saving trees & water:
 Printing has reduced in RGA from 19 000 000 pages in 2009
to 13 000 000 in 2010 which is 6 000 000 pages less.
 6L of water per page
 3000 pages per tree
 6 000 000 divided by 5 to get the savings on paper and
consumables
2. Do away with Novell (a business need)
3. To have secure printing - decrease unauthorised use
4. Centralised management
5. Access control solution – job are printed upon request
Progress of project:
1. New printers with the Safecom device already installed and the
printers were placed strategically on campus.
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Devices installed: 170
Models: P4515dn, M3035xx, CP3525dn, CM6040
Where: RGA’s, Library, a few departments and starting
with the hostels
2. Old Novell queue’s had to be converted to Microsoft queue’s.
Conversion process:
1. A list was made of all Novell printers queue’s shown in Imanager.
2. New names were created for each printer queue e.g.:
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AFRNED_K617_HP2025DN_PA (Old name) to S-AFRNEDK617-PR01
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S = Stellenbosch, K = Koshuis, R = RGA’s, T = Tygerberg
AFRINED = Department
K618 = Room number
PR01 = if there’s more than one of the same printers in
the department it will continue with PR02, PR03 etc.
Conversion process: continue
3. The names of the printers were also changed in RTAD as well as the
domain name
Conversion process: continue
4. Printer Manager was used to create the new queue’s and to set
the necessary printer settings (for example: monochrome printing
and duplexing):
Conversion process: continue
5. Web Jet Admin is then used to upgrade the printer’s firmware and
to add 7 templates:
Conversion process: continue
4. The last step is the Safecom administration
How this will affect our users:
1. Novell print queue’s will be ended at end of April 2011
2. Users will be notified by email
3. Helpline and support personnel will have to help with the migration
process
Steps to installing new print queue’s
for Push Printing:
1. PC must be on the domain
2. In the run command type the following: \\stbpushprint.stb.sun.ac.za
and press enter.
2. The following screen will appear with all the print queue’s already
created:
3. Double click on the new print queue corresponding with the old
one.
4. The drivers will be installed automatically and no settings needs
to be changed In the run command type the following:
\\stbpushprint.stb.sun.ac.za and press enter.
5. as it’s already been done in Print Manager.
What if the PC is not joined to the domain:
1. XP
– the user will be prompt for a username and password.
- remember to put stb\ and the username
2. Win 7 – We are in the process of writing a script which will
automatically perform the connection.