User's Manual Part 1

CHAPTER 4. THE P OL AR CLOUD 111
4.5.1 Adding a printer to your Pola r Cloud account
Typically, a printer is first connected to the Polar Cloud by the
printer’s owner when the printer is first acquired; see the detailed
instructions in Chapter 1. And while Polar Cloud members
might share management of a printer, that is typically achieved
via the printer owner granting manager access to their print-
ers; see Section 4.5.5. That is, printe r management can be
shared without altering printer ownership, and with ou t alter -
ing the printer registration to a particular account in the Polar
Cloud.
If you have acq u i r ed a previousl y used pri nter, especially if
it is a printer previously used at your site, see the discussion of
changing printer ownership in Section 4.5.2;forsomecircum-
stances (in particular, if eith er the network con fi gur a ti o n is still
the same or you wish to retain the printer’s existing job history
and job queues), it may be simpler and more satisfactory to
re-assign printer ownership rather than going through the pro-
cess of adding the printer to your account as a “new” printer
(completely re-configuring the printer’s network profile and re-
registering the printer in the Polar Cloud).
Note tha t if you attempt to add a printer to your account
while it is still registered in the Polar Cloud as having a di↵erent
Polar Cloud member as its owner, the e↵ect will be that you are
added as a manager of the printer, not as the printer’s owner,
and the printer’s existing job history and print queue will be
una↵ected. This i s intentional behavior, as it allows for cases
such as a substi tu t e teacher managing th e printer while the usual
teacher is unavail ab l e: the substitute teacher “adds” the printer
and thereby becomes merely a new manager, rather than wiping