Dell Open Print Driver - Manual (Page 41)

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Chapter 3
Lockdown Policies
Managing Printer Features Using Group Policies
The Dell Open Print Driver supports the use of Windows Group Policies to control access to printers and
printer features on a per-user or per-group basis. System administrators define the policies to be
observed in their organization on a Windows server on their network; these policies are “pushed out” to
individual users’ computers and are enforced by the Dell Open Print Driver when users discover and
manage printers and when they print jobs on printers which use the Dell Open Print Driver.
Available Policies
Discovery Policies
The Dell Open Print Driver dynamically discovers printers on the network that the driver can support
and the user can print to. Group policies are available which will control how wide a network the
discovery process will and what kinds of printers will be made available to the user.
Model Availability Feature Control / Discoverable Printers Policy
This policy limits the printers that can be presented to the user to one or more specific supported
printer models. When the system administrator enables this policy, he or she is responsible for entering
the exact model name of each printer model that is to be made available to the user. Note that if the
model name is not entered correctly, no printer on the network will match the name and no printers of
that model will be discovered.