ThinPrint GmbH Alt-Moabit 91 a 10559 Berlin Germany / Alemania Cortado, Inc. 7600 Grandview Avenue Suite 200 Denver, Colorado 80002 USA/EEUU Cortado Pty. Ltd. Level 12, Plaza Building, Australia Square 95 Pitt Street NSW 2000 Sydney Australia E-mail: [email protected]Web: www.thinprint.com Issued: March 1, 2017 (v194) ThinPrint Client Windows for RDP ThinPrint version 11.0 Manual
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Safety warningPlease note the safety warnings in the technical documentation from your hardware vendor and from the manufacturer of each device and component. Before beginning installation, we recommend closing all windows and applications and deactivating any virus scanner.
OverviewWhat is ThinPrint?The ThinPrint product line offers premium print management for all IT environments. No matter whether server-based, virtualized or distributed PC architecture, with homogeneous or heterogeneous hardware and operating features, with an integrated print server or not. Mobile employees, home employees, as well as complete branch offices can be easily integrated into the existing corporate IT infrastructure without any printing restrictions with regard to flexibility, performance or comfort. Thanks to the high levels of print data compression, dynamic printer deployment and technol-ogy such as Driver Free Printing, ThinPrint fully meets the requirements for profes-sional print management.
The technologyThinPrint is a software solution and consists of server and client components (Illus. 1).
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Illus. 1 using of ThinPrint with server and client components
Server components The ThinPrint Engine is the actual core of the ThinPrint framework. It provides com-plete printer driver management including Driver Free Printing. The ThinPrint Engine performs the following primary functions:
(replaces printer drivers on printing computers = Driver Free Printing).
Client component A software component on the client side, ThinPrint Client is responsible for receiving print data, decompressing it, and sending it to the print device.
Driver Free PrintingThinPrint Output Gateway is a virtual printer driver which enables print jobs to be rendered only on clients with Windows as the operating system; an optional print pre-view is also available on workstations.
Page setup Client-side printer properties such as paper sizes and sources, print quality, color, orientation, print on both sides and finishing options will be displayed in Output Gate-way’s user interface (Illus. 2, left).
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Illus. 2 display of paper sources on a workstation (left) and in a terminal session (right)
Installing ThinPrint ClientSystem requirements
ThinPrint Client Windows 11.0 can be installed onto the following systems1:
• Windows 10, 8.1, 8 and 7 SP1
• Windows Server 2016, 2012 R2, 2012, 2008 R2 and 2008
For the unattended installation see the technical information Preconfiguration and unattended installation of ThinPrint Client Windows (see Page 11). The following describes the attended installation.
Remote Desktop Modern UI
With Windows 8 note that only the classic Microsoft RDP client can be used (see REMOTE DESKTOP CONNECTION in Illus. 3, right) instead of the version for Windows 8 Modern UI (see REMOTE DESKTOP in Illus. 3, left), which currently does not permit any third-party printing solution.
1 For older operating systems older versions of ThinPrint Client Windows can be used.
ThinPrint Client Windows is configured with ThinPrint Client Manager, which can be opened in the START menu (Illus. 10) or, if running, from the task bar (Illus. 11).
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Illus. 10 ThinPrint Client in Start menu
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Illus. 11 ThinPrint Client in the task bar
– The ThinPrint Client Manager will open (Illus. 12).
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Illus. 12 ThinPrint Client Manager: CURRENT PRINTER
Client Manager has three tabs, which are explained below.
Restart ThinPrint Client must be restarted for changes to take effect. To do so, reconnect the Remote Desktop session.
Setup tabCurrent printer Select CURRENT PRINTER here (Illus. 12). Print jobs are printed from the current
printer if the printer ID can't be determined. If the user's default printer in his local printer folder should be his default printer in the session, leave the settings
unchanged (INHERIT SYSTEM’S DEFAULT PRINTER). If another printer is to be provided as default printer in the session, select the preferred printer under USE THIS PRINTER.
In both cases, DEFAULT AT SERVER remains checked. Only remove the checkmark if you don't want the default printer allocation to be influenced by the Client (but rather by server settings).
Assignment tabPrinters and their IDs
ASSIGNMENT lists all printers that are found in the client's printer folder with their IDs (Illus. 13). The printer IDs are automatically assigned by the ThinPrint Client Win-dows.
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Illus. 13 printers with assigned IDs
Reload Printers
You can immediately update the printer list if you click on RELOAD in the context menu (right mouse button) of a printer listed in the window. You can also highlight several printers simultaneously to select or unselect (Illus. 14).
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Illus. 14 reload printer list
Enable sending properties
If this option is enabled and AutoConnect is used, the client printer’s paper trays as well as duplex settings, paper formats, color settings, location, comments and print quality will be applied to the printer created on the server.
AutoConnect It’s also possible to select different printers by checking (or unchecking) the box next to them. All selected printers are created automatically in a session by AutoConnect.
Class Printer classes aren’t relevant with the RDP Engine.
Advanced tabThe ADVANCED panel (Illus. 15) offers the following settings:
Bandwidth ThinPrint’s bandwidth control isn’t be used with RDP Engine.
OK Changes are applied without quitting ThinPrint Client Windows.
CLOSE The CLOSE button can only be used with the TCP/IP type of ThinPrint Client. The RDP type is started and closed automatically with the session.
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Illus. 15 ThinPrint Client Manager for Windows: advanced options
AppendixCustomer service and technical supportwww.thinprint.com/→ RESOURCES & SUPPORT https://www.thinprint.com/en/resources-support/support-request/
Additional resourcesFurther information about ThinPrint can be downloaded from our website.
Manuals and descriptions
Manuals and other technical information are available at https://www.thinprint.com/en/resources-support/guides-manuals/.
Software downloads
The current version of ThinPrint Engine, can be downloaded at: www.thinprint.com/demo.
ThinPrint Clients as well as tools like Finishing Detector and ThinPrint Preview (TPView.exe) can be found at https://www.thinprint.com/en/resources-support/software/clientsandtools/.
Updating or uninstalling ThinPrint ClientUpdating ThinPrint ClientPlease note that previous settings are still valid when updating or installing ThinPrint Client Windows for RDP on a machine where it was installed before. No printer infor-mation will be lost because it’s saved in the Windows Registry. Just install the new version of ThinPrint Client.
Uninstalling ThinPrint Client 1. Select CONTROL PANEL→ PROGRAMS AND FEATURES, select ThinPrint Client