If you’re an administrator who needs their shiny new printer to be discovered immediately, a way you can do this is by forcing your Edge Node to discover this printer is to restart the service!
Restarting an Edge Node from the Admin Console First, you must enable Diagnostic mode to have access to restart an edge node. Log in to the PaperCut Admin console site. Go to Edge Mesh. Find the Edge Node you want to restart. Click the ⋮ (more actions) menu next to it. Select Restart Edge Node. Confirm the restart. Restart the Edge Node service on the computer Use this when you have direct access to the machine running the Edge Node.
Windows Open Task Manager.
Go to the Services tab.
Find PaperCut Hive Edge Node.
Right-click it and select Restart.
macOS Open Applications → Utilities → Terminal. Run the following commands: sudo /Library/PaperCut\ Hive/pc-edgenode-service stop sudo /Library/PaperCut\ Hive/pc-edgenode-service start Notes
Admin privileges are required.
Printing through this Edge Node will pause briefly during the restart.
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