Creating A Standard Printer Definition For Munis

How do I add a printer in Munis?

• Printer
• Printer Definition
• Munis

Printing within the Munis application requires a Munis printer definition to be set up so that the application and printer can communicate with each other.

Please follow these steps to set up a printer definition in Munis for a new or existing printer:

1.  The printer will need to be installed on the Munis application server and set up as a shared printer. Please keep the share name of the printer as short as possible. Using the universal PCL drivers tend to work best for Munis printing.
2. Once you have the printer installed with the instructions from step 1, please verify that you can send a Windows test print successfully.
3. After you are able to print from Windows successfully it is time to set up the Munis printer definition. Please open the Munis application as a user with Munis administrator privileges:

   1. Navigate to: System Administration -> Printer/Device Administration -> Printer Definitions

   2. Click “Add” to add a new definition

   3. Set the following items: 

      Printer ID: Unique Identifier for the printer. This box can accept up to four alphanumeric characters.

      Printer name: Identifying name of printer. This box can be up to 15 alphanumeric characters.

      Printer type: This box is the print command Munis will use to initiate a print job on the printer and is set to command/script for Munis (non TylerForms) printing.

   4. When defining the “Print / forms command” box the script is defined as follows: ntp -d \\Hostname\ShareName -@ ls.ntp

      ntp: This is the operator indicating the use of NTP.exe - required value: ntp

      -d: This is the first command flag. -d indicates that an output destination will be defined following the flag. - required value: -d

      \\Hostname\ShareName: This is the full location of the printer. It should always start with \\ and include the Hostname then another \ and finally the ShareName of the printer. - required value \\hostname (the server name) \sharename (share name of the printer)

      -@:  This command flag indicates that the output will use an options file to define the output format. required value: -@

      ls.ntp: This command flag indicates that the output will use an options file to define the output format. required value: ls.ntp - Landscape, pm.ntp – Portrait Mode, nr.ntp – Narrow Report

   5. Click “Accept” to save new printer definition

4. A printer definition set up with a server name of "Server1", a share name of "printer1", and printing in landscape mode would look like: ntp -d \\Server1\printer1 -@ ls.ntp
5. Have a user test this printer by selecting this printer within Munis