Configuring organizational settings

From the Print Management web portal, click Administration > Organizational Settings.

From the General section, do any of the following:

• Enable Print Clients page—Lets users navigate to the Print Clients page. For more information, see Downloading the Lexmark Print Management Client.
• Allow access to legacy LPMC packages in Print Clients page—Lets users access legacy LPMC packages on the Print Clients page.
• Enable automatic updates for installed print clients—Lets users configure the Lexmark Print Management Client for automatic and seamless updates to the latest version when available. For more information, see Enabling automatic updates for Lexmark Print Management Client.
• Enable print job delegation—Lets you delegate print jobs to other users, allowing them to release the jobs for you. For more information, see Managing delegates.
• Enable delegate e‑mail notification—Sends an email notification to a delegate when the delegate is added or removed. If an expiry date is set for the particular delegate, then the email contains the information related to the expiry date and time as well.
• Enable e‑mail submission—Lets you email documents to Lexmark Cloud for release. For more information, see Sending print jobs using e-mail. The email address appears next to the Enable e‑mail submission option.

Notes:

• The email address is linked to the environment that you are logged in to.
• The email address also appears as a banner on the Print Queue page.
• In the “E-mail documents to the following custom address” field, type an organization‑specific username.
• The email address is <organization‑specific username>@print.lexmark.com.
• When email submission is enabled for the first time, the email address can take up to 24 hours to be available.
• A notification appears when the email address becomes accessible for users to submit print jobs.
• Enable e‑mail body submission—Lets you submit the email body to Lexmark Cloud for release. To enable email body submission, you must enable email submission.

Note:  If Enable e‑mail body submission is not selected, only the email attachment is printed.

• Allow guests to use e‑mail submission—Lets unregistered guest users email their documents to Cloud Print Management. To allow guest print submission, you must enable email submission. For more information, see Configuring the Guest Print feature.
• Limit the number of pages allowed per job—Lets you set the maximum number of pages allowed per job for unregistered guest users.

Note:  Each attachment in the email is treated as an individual job. The body of the email is also treated as an individual job.

• Assign guests to cost center or department—This feature lets you assign guests to a specific cost center or department for applying quotas and reporting. From the Assign guests to cost center or department menu, select any of the following:
• Do not assign—Use this option if you are not assigning guest to any cost center or department.
• Cost center—In the Cost center name field, type the name of the cost center.
• Department—In the Department name field, type the name of the department.
• Enable changing the number of copies before release—Lets you change the number of copies before releasing a print job. For more information, see Releasing print jobs using the eSF application on the printer.
• This feature requires the following versions of the Print Release eSF application:
• For e‑Task v5 or later: 5.10.x or later​
• For e‑Task v4 or earlier: 2.6.x or later
• Enable print and keep—Lets you retain a print job in the print queue after releasing it.
• This feature requires the following versions of the Print Release eSF application:
• For e‑Task v5 or later: 5.10.x or later​
• For e‑Task v4 or earlier: 2.6.x or later
• Enable automatic print release—Lets you release print jobs automatically after logging in to a printer. For more information, see Printing jobs using automatic print release.
• Keep print job file names for reporting—Lets you store the file name of a print job for organizational reporting.
• List and auto‑release oldest print jobs first—Lets you show and release the print jobs in order from oldest to newest.

Update the eSF applications to the following version to use this feature:

• For eSF version 5 or later:
• Cloud Authentication version 5.6.30
• Print Release version 5.10.19
• Device Usage version 2.4.19
• For eSF version 4 or earlier:
• Cloud Authentication version 2.6.23
• Print Release version 2.6.24
• Device Usage version 2.4.19
• Enable print quotas—Lets you set printing quotas. You can define the default quota for the organization, or set a custom quota.

Select one of the following:

• Cost center or personal—Lets you define quotas, and then assign them to cost centers or individual users.
• Department or personal—Lets you define quotas, and then assign them to departments or individual users.
• Personal only—Lets you define quotas, and then assign them to individual users.

Notes:

• For more information on defining the quotas, see Defining quotas.
• For more information on assigning the quotas, see Assigning quotas.
• Enable print policies—Lets you create and assign print policies to the users and groups in your organization.

Select one of the following:

• Cost center or personal—Lets you create a policy, and then assign it to cost centers or individual users.
• Department or personal—Lets you create a policy, and then assign it to departments or individual users.
• Personal only—Lets you create a policy, and then assign it to individual users.

Note:  For more information on creating and assigning print policies, see Creating and assigning print policies.

• Enable direct print—Lets you enable the Direct Print feature for departments, cost centers, and users. This feature allows you to track jobs that are sent to network attached printers, enrolled in Cloud Fleet Management.

Select one of the following:

• Cost center or personal—Lets you create an assignment, and then assign it to cost centers or individual users.
• Department or personal—Lets you create an assignment, and then assign it to departments or individual users.

Note:  For more information on creating a direct print package, see Using Direct Print.

From the Print Job Retention section, specify the length of time before released and unreleased jobs are deleted.

Note:  You can configure the duration for Print Job Retention by specifying the number of days or hours.

From the Print Job History section, specify the period of the print job history.

Notes:

• You can configure the duration for Print Job History by specifying the number of days or hours.
• You can view the print job history information from the Print Job History tab. For more information, see Viewing the print job history.
• This setting determines the included dates when generating the history of submitted print jobs. The specified period has no association with the Analytics web portal.

From the Universal Print Integration section, select the Enable Universal Print feature, and do the following:

• Enable Universal Print—This feature registers the Cloud Print Management as a Microsoft Universal Print (MUP) virtual printer in the Azure Active Directory (AD).
• Printer name—In the Printer name field, type the name of the Cloud Print Management virtual printer.
• Printer share name—In the Printer share name field, type the printer share name.

Note:  The printer name and printer share name can be the same, but the printer share name must be unique.

• The operating system of the client workstation must have Windows 10 version 1903 or later.
• For macOS, the client workstation must have version 13.3 or later.
• The organization is federated, with users registered on Azure Active Directory. For more information, see Configuring an authentication provider.
• The client machine is configured and connected to the Azure Active Directory tenant.

• The user setting up the virtual printer from the Cloud Print Management portal must have the Printer Administrator role in Azure.
• Setting up Cloud Print Management and MUP integration involves additional activities beyond the virtual printer setup. You must fetch the Azure tenant details so that they can be mapped to a Lexmark Cloud Services organization ID. For more information on the permission required for the user, go to https://learn.microsoft.com/.
• The Lexmark Universal Print application must have the following administrator permissions granted:
• User.Read,Organization.Read.All
• PrintJob.ReadBasic / PrintJob.Read / PrintJob.ReadBasic.All

Click Save Changes.

Notes:

• After Universal Print is enabled, and if Azure administrator rights are available, a shared printer is created in the MUP tenant of Azure Active Directory. With Azure administrator rights available, save the changes and select an administrative account.
• The printer name and printer share name are automatically created in the MUP tenant of Azure Active Directory. The printer registration process takes a few minutes to complete.
• In Analytics, the submission type is reported as Microsoft Universal Print.

Select an administrative account to register the virtual printer MUP tenant of Azure Active Directory.

Note:  After making the changes in the Organizational Settings page of Lexmark Cloud Services, the Azure administrator must share the new virtual printer available with users. For more information, see Configuring organizational settings.