Dell ThinOS 2402 Administrator’s Guide

Configuring the printer settings

Use the Printer Setup dialog box to configure network printers and local printers that are connected to the thin client. Through its USB ports, a thin client can support multiple printers. If more than one printer is to be used and another port is not available on your thin client and the port that is to be used must be shared with a USB modem converter, connect a USB hub to the port.

Based on the Citrix Host Printer Policy settings, ThinOS supports the following:

• Device-Specific Printer Driver support—This method allows Citrix hosts to automatically create client redirected printer queues based on the peripheral management printers settings of the ThinOS client. The following details are used by the host print manager to automatically create the printer queues:

  • Name—Printer queue name.
  • Printer ID (Printer Identification)—Printer driver name.
• Citrix Universal Print Driver support—This method allows Citrix hosts to automatically create printer queues based on the peripheral management printers settings of the ThinOS client. The following details are used by the host print manager to automatically create the printer queues:
  • Name—Printer queue name.
  • Class—Printer class that is associated by the Citrix host registry to a printer-specific driver name.
  NOTE:ThinOS 8.6 supports the association of PS, PCL5, and PCL4 classes. However, ThinOS 9.0 associations are limited to the PS class only.

Limitations

• Do not set COM1 and COM2 port as the same Printer Identification as it causes the com printer to not work properly.
• The ThinOS solution to support the client printer redirection functionality is limited to Type 3 printers only. However, the solution is subject to changes in the future according to the changes made by Citrix.
• ThinOS supports only PS class when using the Citrix Universal Print Driver policy to automatically create ThinOS client redirected printers. PCL5 and PCL4 classes are not supported. This is a Citrix limitation.

For known issues and workaround, see the Release Notes of your ThinOS version at www.dell.com/support.