Printers

There is more to setting up new printers than can be achieved on the printers setup page alone. If you're looking to set up a new printer for use with PTS see the Label Printer Installation page.

The printers setup page is a lookup table that links PTS to already configured printers and as such is one of the final stages in the printer installation process. The rest of this document will assume that a printer is up and running as per the Label Printer Installation instructions and that you are looking for a more detailed explanation of the printers setup page.

Accessing the setup page

See the Setting Up & Configuring PTS section for instructions on how to access the setup pages.

Adding new printer

You'll be asked to fill in a few details about the printer.

To create a new printer access the actions menu by clicking on the actions menu icon at the top right of the page, then from the actions menu click the New Printer button.

You'll be asked for a few details before you can create the printer:

• Dispensaries that will use this printer
  Select any dispensaries that should have access to this printer. In most cases it only makes sense to select a single dispensary.
• Name on Server
  The name given to the printer on the PTS server as it appears in Control Panel, Devices and Printers, Print Management etc. This forms the link between PTS and the physical printer.
• Which prescription types will use this printer as their automated printing default?
  If PTS is configured for e-prescribing then you can specify whether or not this printer is used for automated printing for the selected combination of dispensary and prescription types.

Click OK when you're done. The process then continues in the printer popup.

Editing existing printer

To edit an existing printer, select the printer you wish to amend by clicking on its entry in the list to load the printer popup.

Printer popup

Printer details tab

The printer details tab.

This tab contains two settings that are easily confused; please read carefully.

• Printer's name
  Not to be confused with the Name on Server setting. This setting is the human readable or 'friendly' name for the printer that will be read and chosen by the user when they want to use the printer.
• Name on Server
  Not to be confused with the Printer's Name setting. This setting is the name given to the printer on the PTS server as it appears in Control Panel, Devices and Printers, Print Management etc. This forms the link between PTS and the physical printer.

Dispensaries tab

Here you can specify the dispensaries that can use the printer. Use the Plus button to add a dispensary to the list.