Prepare the Print Scout deployment

Before you deploy Print Scout, decide where to install it and what data it should collect. Print Scout can run on print servers and on Windows and Mac workstations.

Check the requirements

Make sure the computers you'll install Print Scout on meet the Print Scout system requirements, including:

  • A supported operating system: Windows (client and server), macOS or Linux
  • Microsoft .NET Framework 4.7.2 or newer on Windows
  • TLS 1.2 turned on, on Windows workstations and servers
  • Administrator access for the person or tool that installs it

Where to install Print Scout

  • On print servers, Print Scout collects information about network printers and multifunction devices.
  • On workstations, it collects network printing activity and printing to locally attached printers.

What Print Scout collects

  • Information about the user from Active Directory
  • Information from the printer, using SNMP
  • Information about the print job, from print stream analysis

You control what's collected and who can see it. You can turn off the collection of some types of data, obfuscate data to protect individual privacy, and use roles to give some users a limited view of the data.

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