Online Demo - Printer Setup for Pull Printing (or Follow Me Printing)           

In this demo, you have two printers "Destination Printer A" and "Destination Printer B". 

1. On PrintLimit Print Release Station (for example, \\PRS), add and share three printers with the same printer driver "Xerox Global Print Driver PS": "Source Printer", "Destination Printer A" and "Destination Printer B".

2. On "Replica Print Release Station A" installed on a computer next to "Destination Printer A", add the shared printer "\\PRS\Source Printer" and "\\PRS\Destination Printer A".

3. On "Replica Print Release Station B" installed on a computer next to "Destination Printer B", add the shared printer "\\PRS\Source Printer" and "\\PRS\Destination Printer B".

4. On each user's computer, add the shared printer "\\PRS\Source Printer". When users print to "Source Printer" from their workstations, the print jobs are held on PrintLimit Print Release Station. The users can go to "Replica Print Release Station A" or "Replica Print Release Station B" to release their print jobs.

Step 1. Download and extract the 30-day trial version of PrintLimit Print Release Station, then double-click setup.exe to install PrintLimit Print Release Station.

On the computer (for example, \\PRS) where PrintLimit Print Release Station is installed:

Step 2. Click Start --> Settings --> Devices and Printers.

Step 3. Click "Add a printer" button to start the Add Printer Wizard, and then click Next.

Step 4. Click the "Add a local printer or network printer with manual settings" option and then click Next.

Step 5. Select a port, for example, Standard TCP/IP Port, Parallel/USB port or LPR Port and follow the instructions on the screen. If the port is not in the list, select "Create a new port" to add a new port, then follow the on-screen instructions.

Step 6. In "Devices and Printers", right-click the printer icon and click Printer properties, share the printer and uncheck "Render print jobs on the client computers". In "Security" tab, assign “CREATOR OWNER” only “Print” permission, click OK button.

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Step 7: Repeat step 3 to step 6 to add "Destination Printer A" and "Destination Printer B".

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Step 8: Right-click the printer "Source Printer" and click "see what's printing", click menu Printer -> Pause Printing. Only the printer "Source Printer" needs to be paused.

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Step 9. Click Start -> All Programs -> PrintLimit -> PrintLimit Print Release Station - Primary to run PrintLimit Print Release Station, add these three printers to the list of "Monitored Printers", click Save, and then click Exit.

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Step 10: In Preferences -> Print Jobs, check the option "Enable pull printing (follow me printing) to different printer".

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On the computer located next to printer "Destination Printer A" to install Replica Print Release Station A:

1. Double-click Print Release Station_Replica.exe to install Replica Print Release Station A.

2. In "Devices and Printers", add printer "\\PRS\Source Printer" and "\\PRS\Destination Printer A"

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pull printing

On the computer located next to printer "Destination Printer B" to install Replica Print Release Station B:

1. Double-click Print Release Station_Replica.exe to install Replica Print Release Station B.

2. In "Devices and Printers", add printer "\\PRS\Source Printer" and "\\PRS\Destination Printer B"

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pull printing

pull printing

On each user's computer:

In "Devices and Printers", add printer "\\PRS\Source Printer".

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pull print 

Print a document from a user's computer. The print job is held on the Print Release Station.  The user can either use Replica Print Release Station A to enter his ID (for example, gary) to show his print job, then release the print job to "Destination Printer A", or use Replica Print Release Station B to release the print job to "Destination Printer B".

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Tip: If the Primary – Replica infrastructure is used, the print job can be listed on both the PrintLimit Print Release Station and the Replica Print Release Station, and users can use either one to release the print jobs.  For more details, check Add a Replica Print Release Station.