Dell open print driver mmc snap-in, Printer discovery – Dell Open Print Driver User Manual
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Dell Open Print Driver MMC Snap-in
The Dell Open Print Driver Snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console allows administrators to find
networked printers and create Open Print Driver queues.
The Dell Open Print Driver Snap-in for MMC installs automatically on a server install. An icon is placed on
the server desktop to conveniently open the MMC with the Dell Open Print Driver Snap-in. It can also be
found by opening the MMC and then opening the File menu and selecting Add/Remove Snap-in.
The Dell OPD MSI installer places and registers the Dell OPD Snap-in for MMC on your server for both
32-bit and 64-bit systems in C:\Windows\System32\dellopd.Snap-in.msc
For
Dell OPD Snap-in to work properly, make sure following package is installed on your system:
For 32-bit Servers:
• C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\installutil.exe
For 64-bit Servers:
• C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v2.0.50727\installutil.exe
The Dell Open Print Driver Snap-in for MMC requires Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 or higher.
For Microsoft Server 2003 the .Net Framework can be downloaded from
For 32 Bit operating systems
For 64 Bit operating systems
For Server 2003, install Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 to successfully register Dell OPD MMC Snap-in. If
Dell OPD MMC Snap-in is unable to register, re-install Dell OPD after .Net Framework 2.0 has been
successfully installed on your system.
The Dell Open Print Driver Snap-in provides two functions for the administrator:
• Printer Discovery
• Print Queue management
Printer Discovery
The Discover view allows the administrator to find printers on the network. The administrator can type
printer addresses into the "Find Printers" field in the following way:
• IPv4 address including multicast addresses, e.g. 192.168.0.15 or 192.168.0.255
• IPv4 address range in CLIDR notation, e.g. 192.168.0.0/24
• IPv6 address, including multicast addresses, e.g. 2001:0db8::1234 or ff02::1
• UNC path to a queue on another server, e.g.
\\server\printer