Web-Based-Print-Install Instructions
- Download drivers for your printers in the format of .inf for windows or PPD's for all others.
- Windows:
- All these instructions can be found in better detail here
- Download the driver and specify in the batch file where within the current directory the driver is located in the variable
driverLocation
; the batch file will automatically grab the cwd and conactenate it to the beginning. - Specify the
driverName
for your printer as specified in the.inf
- Specify your
IP
address for your printer - Specify the name you'd like to call the printer under the variable
printerName
- MacOS/Linux
- Download the driver and specify in the batch file where within the current directory the driver is located in the variable driverLocation; the bash file will automatically grab the cwd and conactenate it to the beginning.
- Specify the IP address
- Specify the name that you want to call the printer under the variable
$PRINTERNAME
- Specify the name you'd like to call the printer but without spaces this time under the variable
$PRINTERNAME
- Specify the file path of the PPD without the actual name of the PPD; just the path right up to the folder under the variable
$PPDPATH
- Specify the name of the PPD with the file extension under the variable
$PPDNAME
- ZIP the driver file and the batch/bash file for the printers up and be sure to get a naming scheme going so that your end users are staying consistent with their language.
- Edit the HTML Office Page file to reflect the file hierarchy in the anchor's
href
portion- You can also edit the colors to reflect you company's colors and the picture to reflect your company's logo.
- Edit the HTML Landing Page file to redirect users based on IP to the printers in their immediate vicinity.
- You can instead edit the
SiteSelect
HTML file to be the landing page. This is done easily by replacing thelocalhost/exampleX
with whatever your site name and pages are that you'd like to redirect to. - You also, alternatively, just use the Office page to be a standalone page which hosts downloads for a single office.
- You can instead edit the