Settings Preferences for Network-Attached Printer Discovery

The Network Printers tab of the Print Preferences dialog controls the Print Manager application's behavior when a network-attached printer is auto-discovered and preconfigured.

You can change the following settings:

• Auto-detect network printers

  If this setting is selected, the network is scanned periodically for new printer queues, according to the settings in the Configuration sub-dialog.

• Show new printer notification messages:

  The two options for this setting are Immediately or Never.

  Choose Immediately if you want to see a panel notification message when a network printer is discovered. Choose Never if you prefer to receive no message when a network printer is discovered.

• Add discovered printers to:

  All printers group only – If selected, all new network printer queues are only be added to the All Printers group in Print Manager.

  All printers group and – Contains a drop-down list with all the regular groups, plus the Favorites group.

  If selected, all new network printer queues are added to the All Printers group and an additional group of your choice. You can select the additional group from the drop-down list.