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Secure Printing With Your Smartphone in FREDprint

Secure Printing With Your Smartphone in FREDprint

 

iOS Setup

  1. Go to the App Store and search for the Pharos Secure Release App with the yellow torch on top of the grey background

Pharos Secure Release App where the yellow torch is on top of the grey background

  1. Log into the app.

    1. The first step will require your full email.

      1. For Faculty/Staff, this is usually firstname.lastname@fredonia.edu.

      2. For Students, this is usually your FirstinitialLastname@fredonia.edu, though if that was not available, it might contain middle initial or a number on the end.

    2. Once you have entered the email address, you will then use your eServices@fredonia.edu and the connected password on the single sign-on screens that come up.

Pharos App Login Screen

  1. To print from your iPhone, you must first install a profile. To start the process, click on “one time setup instructions”

'One time setup instructions' link highlighted

  1. Pharos Secure Release will start downloading the profile necessary for printing. Please allow for the profile to be downloaded when prompted

Warning pop up message from Apple stating that 'This website is trying to download a configuration profile. Do you want to allow this'

  1. Once the profile has been downloaded, you can click close and move onto the next steps of installing the profile

Profile Downloaded pop up message from Apple

  1. When you go into the Settings app on your phone, it should have an entry about Profile Downloaded under your iCloud account information. Click on the Profile Downloaded text.

Profile Downloaded tab in the settings app

  1. As installing profiles is a way that phones can be compromised, please ensure that the profile contains the Signed by of mobile-print.beacon.pharos.com before hitting Install in the upper right. If it states anything else, please do not install the profile and use the Remove Downloaded Profile button.

Pharos Install Secure Printer Profile screen in settings

  1. Once the profile has been installed, return to the Pharos Secure Release application and click on “How to submit a job”, to learn how to submit and perform a first test print that finishes configuration.

Pharos homepage where the 'How to submit a job' link is highlighted
Print a test page screen which shows your unique username and your app code
Secure Printer tab locked

  1. Once you reach the user name and password, you will need to enter your eServices email address and then paste the App Code that was automatically copied in the previous step into the password line. This is a one-time entering of that code and printing from your phone should not need to re-enter the App Code under normal circumstances.

Pharos Secure Printer login using fredonia email and the one time app code that was automatically copied to the clipboard
'Test Sccessful' screen shown after the login was completed

  1. After initial configuration, you should be able to print from your phone just by selecting the Secure Printer (Cloud) option in the Printer dialog.

Secure Printer tab is now unlocked

Android Setup

  1. Find Pharos Secure Print in the Google Play Store and install.

  2. Log into the app.

    1. The first step will require your full email.

      1. For Faculty/Staff, this is usually firstname.lastname@fredonia.edu.

      2. For Students, this is usually your FirstinitialLastname@fredonia.edu, though if that was not available, it might contain middle initial or a number on the end.

    2. Once you have entered the email address, you will then use your eServices@fredonia.edu and the connected password on the single sign-on screens that come up.

  3. Due to the different architecture of Android vs. iOS, there are no further steps.

After Installing The App

  1. When you print, select the 'Secure Printer'.

  2. Walk to an enabled printer with Printer QR Code.

  3. Scan the QR Code on your 'Secure Release' mobile app, and your documents will be released to you.

    1. It is also possible to release documents you printed from your computer by scanning the QR Code at the printer.