Blueprint Print Center Secure Printers

The Secure > Secure Printers tab in the Pharos Print Center allows you to secure and manage several Pharos Sentry Print capable devices.

Note

The Secure tab is available on Blueprint 5.3 or later only.

Before Securing Devices

To successfully secure a device, you must ensure that the following conditions are met:

• The device exists in Blueprint Administrator ( Device Management > Devices screen).

• The device has the following details: Manufacturer, Model, and IP address.

• The Model of the device is supported. See the Supported Models list at https://www.pharos.com/products/supported-printers-mfds/ for Sentry Print-capable devices.

• The device has no associated Terminal (or if it has it's of type SE50).

• In Blueprint Administrator, for the “Standard Authentication Method”:

  • “User Logon” needs to be set to “Users can logon using a card or network ID and password”, and

  • “Registration” set to “Users can register with their network ID”

• A credential has been created in Print Center. To create a credential for a manufacturer in Print Center, please refer to the "Blueprint Sentry Print Credentials" topic for detailed information on how to manage credentials.

Securing Devices

To secure devices:

1. Make sure to read the "Before Securing Devices" section of this document.

2. Navigate to the Secure > Secure Printers screen of the Print Center.

3. Select one or more devices that you want to secure.

4. Click the Secure Printers button.

5. In the Secure Printers dialog box, configure the following:

   1. Select the desired Available Logon Types using the right arrow button. Remove Logon Types by selecting them and using the left arrow button.

   2. In the Hosting Server option, select the server desired as the secure printer’s host All available Blueprint servers (Analyst and Collector) will display in this list.

6. Click the Secure button to initiate provisioning.

7. After a brief delay, the Status value of the printer will change to show progress (as a percent) with the tag “Processing…”.

The length of time it takes to secure a printer is dependent upon the manufacturer, as some printers require other activities to set device-based options, install other components, and possibly reboot to initialize and launch the newly-installed software. Once the device is secured, the Status will change to Secured and it can be used by employees to release awaiting jobs.

After Securing a Printer

• A terminal record (in Device Management > Terminals screen) is automatically created in Blueprint Administrator with the Terminal Type SE50 (1.0.0). The terminal name corresponds to the serial number of the device. If the device has no serial number, then it uses the hostname or IP address of the device as the Terminal Name.

• Authentication Method is set to Standard Authentication Method.

Note

If the authentication method should be something else, edit the Default Settings for the SE50 terminal type in the Secure Release Here group within Blueprint Administrator.