Printer Mapping: The Right Printers for the Right People, Automatically

Assign printers to users and groups from one cloud console. When someone joins a team, changes offices, or starts a new role, their printers update instantly. No GPOs. No login scripts. No print servers. No manual setup per device.

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Why It Exists

Why Assigning Printers to Users Still Creates IT Work

Every new hire, every office move, every department change means someone in IT has to touch a printer assignment.

Manual Mapping Doesn't Scale

IT walking over to configure a printer, running a script per device, or fielding "I can't find my printer" tickets takes time that compounds across locations. Every new office or team restructure restarts the cycle.

Comparison

What Printer Mapping Replaces

If you've managed printer assignments before, you've used at least one of these. ezeep replaces all of them from one cloud console.
Traditional Method
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GPOs
Requires AD, print server, domain-joined Windows devices. 90-minute refresh cycles. PrintNightmare broke deployments enterprise-wide. Windows only.
Cloud console assignment. Immediate changes. Works across Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, iOS, Android. No print server, no domain membership.
Login Scripts
VBS/PowerShell commands like AddWindowsPrinterConnection at logon. Prolongs login times, breaks when server names change. Windows only.
No scripts, no login dependency. Printers assigned in the cloud and available on the device. Nothing to write, test, or debug.
Universal Print + Intune
Eliminates print server for UP-native printers but needs a connector for everything else. Intune provisioning with per-user licensing. Windows 10/11 with Entra ID join only.
Works across all platforms without Intune. No connector needed. Assign a printer to a group and it appears on every device in that group.
Agent-Based Platforms
Desktop agent installs drivers locally and checks in on a schedule (often hours between syncs). Driver management still falls on IT.
No drivers on endpoints. Cloud rendering handles translation. No check-in intervals. No compatibility issues when a new OS ships.
Print Queue Deployment Tools
Clone driver configs from a reference VM, package, and push to endpoints by zone. New printer model means a new deploy cycle.
No cloning, no zone licensing, no driver installation. Cloud handles rendering. Admin portal handles assignment.
How It Works

Assign Once, Apply Everywhere

Three ways to map printers to users, depending on how your organization is set up. All three are managed from the ezeep admin portal. None of them require a print server, a login script, or a Group Policy.
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Admin Portal Assignment

Create groups (by location, department, team, or role), add users, and assign printers. Two paths: assign printers from the Printers menu, or assign them from the Users and Groups menu. Either way, it takes a few clicks. When you assign a printer to a group, every member of that group can see and use it immediately.

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Entra ID Group Sync Assignment

Connect Microsoft Entra ID and import your existing directory groups. Users and group memberships sync automatically, so printer assignments follow your identity structure. When someone is added to a group in Entra ID, they get the right printers in ezeep without admin intervention. When they're removed, access is revoked. This replaces the GPO workflow of linking policies to OUs and configuring Item Level Targeting by security group, without the print server dependency or the Windows-only limitation. Available on Business and Enterprise plans.

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Domain-Based Assignment

Set a rule that automatically adds any new user with a specific email domain to a designated group. Useful for onboarding large numbers of users at once, especially in education and coworking environments where you want everyone from a domain to get the same printers. No Active Directory required. No scripts to update when the onboarding process changes.

User Self-Service

Let Users Help Themselves

Admins can enable the "Printer Selection in User Portal" policy, which lets users toggle their own printer assignments on or off from the ezeep User Portal. This is useful in environments where users move between floors, buildings, or locations and need to add or remove printers without waiting for IT.

The admin still controls which printers are available to which groups. Users can only enable or disable printers that have already been assigned to their group. They can't add printers outside their permissions. This is a controlled self-service model: users get flexibility within boundaries IT defines.

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Who This Is For

Built for Environments Where Printers and People Don't Stay in One Place

Frequently Asked Questions

Curious about how it all works? Here's everything you wanted to know about ezeep's cloud printing solution!

What is Printer Mapping in ezeep?

Printer Mapping is the way ezeep assigns printers to users. Admins create groups (by location, department, team, or role), add users to those groups, and assign printers. Users see all printers across their groups automatically, on every device they sign into. Changes apply immediately with no GPO refresh cycle, no login script, and no driver installation on the endpoint.

How is ezeep Printer Mapping different from deploying printers through Group Policy?

Group Policy requires Active Directory, a print server with shared printers, and domain-joined Windows devices. Changes depend on 90-minute refresh cycles and break frequently after security updates like the PrintNightmare patches. ezeep Printer Mapping is managed from a cloud portal, applies immediately, works across Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, iOS, and Android, and requires no print server or domain membership.

Does Printer Mapping work without Active Directory or Microsoft Entra ID?

Yes. Admins can create groups manually in the ezeep admin portal and use email invites, Self-Join links, or domain-based auto-assignment to add users. Entra ID group sync is available on Business and Enterprise plans for organizations that want automated provisioning, but no directory integration is required.

Can users add or remove printers themselves?

Only if the admin enables the "Printer Selection in User Portal" group policy. When enabled, users can toggle printers on or off within the set already assigned to their groups. They cannot access printers outside their group assignments. Admin-assigned printers remain locked and visible.

Which ezeep plans include Printer Mapping?

Manual printer assignment, domain-based automatic group assignment, and self-service printer selection are available on all plans, including Free. Microsoft Entra ID group sync requires Business or Enterprise.

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You Shouldn't Need a Print Server to Assign a Printer

Tie printers to groups. Let your identity provider handle the rest. Every user gets the right printers without a GPO, a script, or a support ticket.

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