I currently administer close to 80 Xerox WorkCentre 7800 series printers. I’ve been trying to find a way to easily and quickly deploy updated configurations to these machines. The printers have a cool feature where you can setup one and then generate a clone file of the settings. Out of the box it appears the only way to then apply these settings to your fleet is to manually login via the web to each printer and upload the clone file. Xerox recommended that we try using their admin software called Centreware Web. This requires a Windows server and SQL server. I setup the server, but lets just say it’s feature set leaves a lot to be desired. It required setting up SMTPv3 which again requires pushing a new configuration to the printers (which I painstakingly did one by one). However I still could not get the application of clone files to work. I did some searching and found references to older models being configured by ‘printing’ the clone file to the printer. I tried this on one and found that it did indeed work. With a quick trip to the command line, I’ve streamlined this process.<\/p>\n
First thing was to get the necessary info for the While you could do this on your local machine I didn’t want to have all the printers, nor did I want to mix my other printers so I created the printers on an existing mac server.<\/p>\n Here are the steps to add printers to your machine:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sending Configuration Files:<\/p>\n I currently administer close to 80 Xerox WorkCentre 7800 series printers. I’ve been trying to find a way to easily and quickly deploy updated configurations to these machines. The printers have a cool feature where you can setup one and then generate a clone file of the settings. Out of the box it appears the … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,13],"tags":[12,11,10,8],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carib-mendez","4":"post-26","6":"format-standard","7":"category-macintosh","8":"category-xerox","9":"post_tag-clone","10":"post_tag-work-center","11":"post_tag-workcentre","12":"post_tag-xerox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caribmendez.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caribmendez.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caribmendez.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caribmendez.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caribmendez.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.caribmendez.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.caribmendez.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caribmendez.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caribmendez.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caribmendez.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}lpadmin<\/code> tool. I already had a spreadsheet with all of the printers info, and created a new spreadsheet with column a<\/strong> being the printer name, and column b<\/strong> the ip address. I then exported this as a comma separated value list (.csv) file.<\/p>\n\n
printers.csv<\/code><\/li>\n#!\/bin\/bash\r\nINPUT=printers.csv\r\nOLDIFS=$IFS\r\nIFS=\",\"\r\nwhile read printer_name ip\r\ndo\r\n`lpadmin -E -p $printer_name -v 'lpd:\/\/'$ip'\/' -P '\/Library\/Printers\/PPDs\/Contents\/Resources\/Xerox\\ WorkCentre\\ 7845.gz<\/span>'`\r\ndone < $INPUT\r\nIFS=$OLDIFS<\/pre>\n<\/li>\nprinterMake.sh<\/code> and place it on your desktop<\/li>\nchmod o+x ~\/Desktop\/printerMake.sh<\/code> This will give the file execute privileges<\/li>\nsudo .\/printerMake.sh<\/code> This will loop through the printers file and add each printer to your system<\/li>\nlpstat -v<\/code>\u00a0 This should return the list of all of the printers installed on the system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n
lpstat -p | awk {'print $2'} | while read printer; do lp -d $printer ~\/Desktop\/Cloning.dlm ;\u00a0 done<\/pre>\n<\/li>\nCloning.dlm<\/code> will now be sent to the printers. They will apply the settings and reboot with the new settings applied<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"