User`s guide

12-6 Providing visitor printing services
Software Release 2.30 YesWare Applications User’s Guide 08-01016-01
Procedure 12-1
Provisioning visitor printing services
Use this procedure to provision visitor printing services using the Print
Services module. This procedure is divided into the following major tasks:
Requirements
To configure Print Services, the system administrator must have at least one
networkable printer connected to a specific IP address. The IP address can be
on the VBN (ETH 1) or host network (ETH 0) side of the network.
Action
Step Action
Configuring Printer(s)
1 Select the rooms to receive printing services. Provision these rooms with
guest
Port Use Contexts as described in this document.
2 Install a networkable printer onto the ETH 0 (host LAN) or ETH 1 (VBN) side
of the YWS system. Configure the printer according to the following table:
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Task Steps
Configuring Printer(s) 1 to 8
Setting rates for printing services 9 to 12
Assigning printers and rates to guest rooms 13 to 16
Starting visitor printing services 17 to 18
Testing visitor printing services 19
If the printer is
installed on
Then
ETH 0 configure the printer on the host LAN according to
standard Ethernet TCP/IP networking procedures
ETH 1 • configure the printer with an IP address on the ETH 1
subnet. Note: Be sure not to conflict with any significant
YesWare IP addresses such as the DHCP range or
Ethernet switch IP addresses.
• configure IP address
of the ETH 1 interface as the
printer’s network gateway
• configure the network mask
of the ETH 1 interface set
as the printer’s subnet mask