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Okay.

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So the companion preference area to drive mappings are printer mappings and GP preferences has the ability

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to do both per computer and per user printer mappings.

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And this is found under preferences backslash control panel settings, backslash printers and either

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user configuration or computer configuration.

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So what you can do are essentially create three different types of printers.

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You can do shared printers, which are the traditional UMC based print server approach where the server

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is shared by a print server.

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I'm sorry, the printer is shared by a print server.

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This one's actually not available on the computer side, but it is available per user.

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You can do TCP IP printer connections.

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So if you're just going directly to the printer, you're not going through a print server, then there's

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support for that feature.

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And then there's support for local for mapping local printers.

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So if every one of your users in a particular department, let's say it's the finance department, has

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a local printer, then you can actually create the mapping for them using GP preferences.

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And what GP preferences can do for you as it handles that mapping of the printer, making the printer

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the default or just connecting to it in your devices and printers control panel applet.

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And it can also do the installation of the drivers or at least the path to the drivers so that your

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user will have access to the drivers required to actually use that particular printer.

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So again, looking at the GP preferences printer types, you've got TCP IP printers and you'll see here

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that it shows an options for the IP address of the printer, the name the printer path to the drivers.

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So that printer path is an actual USC path to the drivers for this printer and some location in comment.

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And you can also set port options.

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And again, using the comment tab, you can use item level targeting to map printers just as well as

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you can drives.

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Shared printers.

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You just enter in the share path.

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You tell it if you want this to be the default printer and away you go.

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There's not much to this one.

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And then local printer, you tell it what port the printer is attached to.

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Again, you can provide a printer path to the drivers and you can give it a name and it will appear

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in the user's printer connections.

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So let's with that little introduction, let's dive in and create some printers.