How to Private Print Using a Toshiba Multifunction Printer (MFP)

Overview

In some situations, you may need to print documents securely to ensure they aren't picked up by someone else before you arrive. Private Printing is a simple way to do this.
This guide will show you how to use Private Print on Toshiba Multifunction Printers. It allows you to send a print job to the printer but hold it until you manually release it once you arrive.

Instructions

We'll start with how to initiate Private Print from your computer, then walk through the steps to release the job at the printer.

At your computer:

  1. Open the file to be printed (Word document, Excel Spreadsheet, etc.)
  2. Click on File, and then Print. Ensure that the correct printer is selected
  3. Click on Printer Properties
  4. In the 'basic' tab, change the Print Job by selecting the drop down and choosing 'Private Print'

Go to File, then print, and click Printer Properties. In the basic tab, select Private Print as the job type.

  1. Click the ellipsis to the right of 'Private Print'.  Enter a desired print password of your choosing (you will enter this when you go to the printer) and click on OK

Click the 3 dots next to Private Print, and then set a password of your choosing.

  1. Click OK in Printer Properties, and then press Print when ready. This will send the print job to the printer, where it will stay on hold until you arrive

Now you will head to the printer itself.
Once you arrive at the printer:

  1. On the printer's control panel, press the Print icon.

On the home screen of the printer, press the print button.

  1. Change the Job Type to 'Private', and then select your username. Press OK.

Set the job type to private, and then select your username. Press OK.

  1. Enter the password of the print job you sent earlier (NOT for your career account) and then press OK.

Enter the password you set earlier and press Ok. Remember that this is not your career account password.

  1. Select the documents that you want to print, and then press Print.

Select the document you want to print, and press print.

You are all done! You can take your securely printed paper from the tray.

 

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