Why?
Disabling direct printing prevents the receipt of offensive, non-WPI business/academic related print jobs from external senders.
Impact
This change will only impact printers connected to the printer server and not personal local printers.
Benefits
Improves cybersecurity for the printers.
Action Needed
By July 19, 2024 please ensure that you are printing via the print server. Note that “printername” below would be the name of the printer you use, such as GL-helpdesk.
Details
For Windows computers, open Printers.
- If “printername on printers.wpi.edu” is listed, it will not be impacted by the change and no further action is needed.
- If only “printername” is listed, the connection will stop working when the security change is made. To maintain printer access, please follow the instructions for Adding a Network Printer in Windows (Related Articles) on the WPI Hub by July 19.
For Mac computers, open Terminal and type the command “lpstat -v”
- If “device for printername: smb://printers.wpi.edu/printername?encryption=no” is listed, it will not be impacted by the change and no further action is needed.
- If “device for printername: ipp://###.###.##.##/ipp/print” is listed, the connection will stop working when the security change is made. To maintain printer access, please follow the instructions for Adding a Network Printer in MacOS (Related Articles) on the WPI Hub by July 19.