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Installing a Customized or Locked Printer

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In some environments you may need to install a customized version of the TIFF Image Printer printer for all of your users, or to install one or more custom-named printers with their own settings. This approach is commonly used when distributing software remotely and/or silently to multiple users on a network using Microsoft SCCM or a similar product with software push capability.

The steps below will walk you through creating a custom profile, and if desired, a custom-named printer, and setting that profile to be used by the printer. It also shows how to create a printer that is locked to a profile, perfect for when a base set of options needs to be used by all users.

Once we have our profile created and the TIFF Image Printer printer configured, or our custom-named printer created, the Backup and Restore All Settings feature is used to create a export file containing only the printer(s) you want to update or add during the installation. This export file is used when pushing TIFF Image Printer on other computers.

For push software like Intune, SCCM or others where you may have to run them in a System account environment, and not as the logged in user,

Creating Custom Settings for TIFF Image Printer

Creating a Custom Printer with Locked Settings

How to Create the Export File

Installing TIFF Image Printer with Custom Settings

Updating TIFF Image Printer with New Settings

Creating the Custom Settings and a Printer

This configures the TIFF Image Printer printer with your own settings or creates a custom-named printer with your own settings. Users can still create their own profiles, and edit the profiles you distribute. If you are pushing the software as the logged in user, you can configure custom settings this way. If you are pushing the software under the System account, go to Creating a Custom Printer with Locked Settings.

Step by Step Instructions

1.Install the TIFF Image Printer on a single computer. You do not have to license the software at this point.

2.Follow the steps Create a New Profile Settings File to create a custom profile with your settings and save the profile.

3.To set the default profile for the TIFF Image Printer printer to the one you just created, follow the steps in Change Default Profile.

4.If you want to install your own custom-named printer, follow the steps in Add New Printer to create and name your custom printer. Set the default profile for your custom printer to the profile you created in step 2 above.

Creating the Custom Settings and a Locked Printer

This configures the TIFF Image Printer printer, or a custom-named printer with a locked version of your own settings.  When a printer is locked to a profile, that is the only profile available in the Save As prompt, and the only profile listed in the Printing Preferences dialog.

When pushing the software using the System account, custom settings must be set using a locked printer.

Step by Step Instructions

1.Install the TIFF Image Printer on a single computer. You do not have to license the software at this point.

2.Follow the steps Create a Shared Profile to create a custom profile with your settings and share the profile. Only shared profiles can be locked to a printer.

3.To lock the profile to the printer, follow the steps in Lock Shared Profile to Printer.

4.If you want to install your own custom-named printer, follow the steps in Add New Printer to create and name your custom printer. Then follow step 3 above to lock the profile for your custom printer to the shared profile you created in step 2.

Creating the Export File

The Backup and Restore All Settings feature is used to create the export file that contains only the printer(s) you want to update or add when pushing the setup.

Step by Step Instructions

1.Launch the TIFF Image Printer Dashboard.

LaunchDashboard

 

2.Click the gear icon from the top right hand corner of the Dashboard window, and select "Export Printer Settings".

ExportPrinterSettings

 

3.Under Choose Printers disable "Export all printers" and check the printer(s) you want to export.

CustomPrinterExportPrinterSettingsChoosePrinters

 

4.Under Choose Profiles disable "Export all personal profiles". The profiles that are in use by a printer being exported are automatically selected and cannot be unselected.

CustomPrinterExportPrinterSettingsChooseProfiles

 

5.For any shared profiles disable "Export all shared profiles". The shared profiles that are in use by a printer being exported are automatically selected and cannot be unselected.

CustomPrinterExportPrinterSettingsChooseSharedProfiles

 

6.Select Start Export, and save the export file.

CustomPrinterExportPrinterSettingsStartExport
ExportPrinterSettingsExporting

Running the Setup

To run the customized setup on another computer, the setup program and the export file need to be accessible from that computer.

For push software, the export settings file needs to be in a location that is accessible when the push software runs the setup. Push software that used the System account needs to use an export file where the custom printer is using locked settings.

Command Line Syntax

/S

With the silent install command line parameter set, the entire installation will execute silently, without a user interface, or any user intervention. When any input is required on dialog boxes, the default values of dialog controls will be used.

SHOWUI=TRUE|FALSE

This option determines if the desktop icon and start menu shortcut for TIFF Image Printer Dashboard are created as part of the install. This option is only valid for Subscription installs. Passing in FALSE for the SHOWUI option will install the product but not create the desktop icons icons and start menu shortcuts.

CONFIGPRINTER="Path to export file"

This is the full path to the exported settings file created above, in quotes.

For a full description of the install command line arguments see Installing the Printer Silently.

 

Subscription License

pntifsubsetup_12.0.001.exe /S SHOWUI=FALSE CONFIGPRINTER="C:\PEERNET\PrinterSettings.pntifexport"

One Time License

pntifotsetup_12.0.001.exe /S CONFIGPRINTER="C:\PEERNET\PrinterSettings.pntifexport"

Updating the Custom Settings

If you need to update the custom settings used by the TIFF Image Printer printer after the software has been pushed to all the clients, the PNCustomPrinterSetup console utility can be used to apply an updated export file for each user without having to remove/re-install. This utility is included in the TIFF Image Printer install folder and will already be on each user's computer.

The utility is in the ProfileUI subfolder of the product install location on the computer. This is normally C:\Program Files\TIFF Image Printer 12\.

The updated the export settings file needs to be in a location that is accessible when the utility is run.

"C:\Program Files\TIFF Image Printer 12\ProfileUI\PNCustomPrinterSetup.exe" "C:\PEERNET\NewPrinterSettings.pntifexport"