Computers

Get real-time updates and make changes on every computer in your system from one place.

Use Computers in Control Center to see which printers are installed on which computers, check if specific printers are installed, and manage Print queues installed on all your computers. Computers available for centralized printer management include desktop and laptop computers, servers, and virtual machines that can connect to printers and send printing instructions. Install printers you add to Control Center on your computers with your uploaded printer driver packages to start centrally managing your label printing system.

On Computers you want to print from, install any Loftware desktop application and sign in to your account. Signing in connects your computer to Control Center and makes it available for centralized Printer Management.

• Go to Control Center > Printer Management > Computers to see your list of connected computers. Click column headers to sort your list by column.

  

• Add your computers to printer Groups to make sure your printer operators with access to specific groups have permissions to install and update printers on computers they need. To add computers to groups, select your computers and click More > Set group. For more information, read Groups

  

• To remove computers from your list of connected computers, select your computers and click More > Remove computers.

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  You can only remove offline computers. To remove a connected computer, first disconnect it from Control Center, then remove it from this page.

• Click on computer names to view and update Computer Information and see a list of centrally-managed Installed Printers for specific computers.

  

  • Print queues: view queues statuses and pause, resume, clear, and delete print queues for your printer.

Centrally managing your connected computers from Control Center helps you quickly install printers and control your printing process.

Print queues

Print queues are an essential component of centrally managed printing. Print queues appear in your Overview page, Printer Settings page, and Computers detail page.

A print queue is a virtual concept~a holding area for storing spooled print jobs while the printer is trying to catch up. You don't actually send print jobs to printers, you send them to print queues until printers start printing at print time. A print queue doesn't require a printer~ it continues to accept jobs while the printer is offline (like while being repaired).

• Jobs you send to printers actually go to print queues first.

• When your printers are printing jobs, print queues store additional spooled print jobs.

• Print queues are independent from printers and can continue to accept jobs even when printers are offline.

• In Control Center, the Print queues page lists all your printers, but you can only manage queues for your licensed printers.

• Performing actions on print queues for unlicensed printers uses a printer license seat for that printer.

• Deleting a print queue creates a Provisioning Operations.