Wolfprint Information for Technical Staff

• Supported environments
• Printer requirements
• Requesting a printer
• Printer hookup
• Networking fee
• Networking port
• Adding a printer
• Print queue name
• Registering in QIP
• Printer object
• Access Control Lists

Supported environments

• Windows
• Mac
• Linux

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Printer requirements

• Wolfcopy-approved model
• BlueCat compatible
• status retrievable by SNMP
• page count retrievable with PJL commands
• retrieve a TFTP configuration file to generate IP Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• support:
  • bi-directional printing via Port 9100 (the PDL datastreaming port)
  • PostScript
  • Printer Job Language (PJL)

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Requesting a printer

Fill in and submit the form at WolfPrint - Request a Printer.

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Printer hookup

• WolfCopy will be responsible for purchasing the printer's network cable. 
• OIT will be responsible for
  • setting the network configurations on the printer
  • monitoring the connectivity.

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Networking fee

• The department requesting a WolfCopy printer will be responsible for any port activation fee associated with the installation.  

Networking port

• Each printer should have its own dedicated network port.

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Adding a printer  

• Adding a WolfPrint accounted printer on a Windows7 workstation
• Adding a WolfPrint accounted printer on a Macintosh workstation
• Adding a WolfPrint accounted printer on a Linux workstation
• Adding a WolfPrint accounted printer on a Windows XP workstation:
  1. Manually browse to:
     \\uni12ps.printers.unity.ncsu.edu\
  2. Specifiy the queue name to install. For example:
     \\uni12ps.printers.unity.ncsu.edu\dhl-2413-1

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Print queue name

• all lower case
• based on:
  • official NC State building abbreviation [See Building IndexThis link will open in a new window (link opens in a new window).]
  • room number
  • queue ID
• print queue name examples:

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Registering in QIP

• OIT will register the printer in QIP.

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Printer object

• must use domain name:
  .wc.ncsu.edu
• must use WolfPrint TFTP Configuration File, distributed via one of these:
  • WolfCopy Printer DHCP template
  • WCPRINTER BOOTP template in QIP

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Access Control Lists

• Printers must use OIT's WolfPrint Access Control Lists (ACLs)

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