Departmental Printing - Send scans to your email with a MFP
Supported Lanier multi-function printers
Lanier printers are supplied through the Print and Copy Services. These Laniers are placed onto campus, and are managed, maintained, and updated on a regular basis. Laniers are pre-configured as network scanners by Print and Copy Services. You most likely need your copier code to access the scanning features.
Other printers with scan-to-email capabilities
Printers Must conform to the Security Standards for Printers
Other options for unsupported multi-function printer
Any device that generates email and sends email via NDSU's SMTP server must be registered in the SMTP Registry. Before you can register a multi-function printer with the SMTP Registry, the device must already have an assigned Static IP or Static DHCP name assigned to it.
When completing the SMTP Registry form to register a multi-function printer, you will need to enter information in the following fields:
- Log in to the SMTP Registry using your NDSU Bison login and password
- Click Register Device
- Enter the fully qualified domain name of your device in the Domain box
- Start typing the name of your Department in the Department box
- Select your Department
- Select Start Date - must be at least 1 day in the future
- Enter the EID of the Technical Contact
- Select your Device Settings
- Directly Send Emails - select if your device will send emails directly
- Indirectly Send Emails - select if your device will need to send emails through smtp.ndsu.edu (does not have its own mail server)
- Receive Emails - select if your device will also receive emails
- Click Register
After the completed SMTP Server Request is saved, NDSU IT Security will be notified. IT Security will review the information provided and may follow up with additional questions. Once approved, it takes approximately 5 minutes before the device will be able to use smtp.ndsu.edu to relay email.
Configure device with smtp.ndsu.edu relay
Each device may use different terms in its configuration screens, but you will most likely need four categories of information:
| MFP Option | NDSU Setting | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| SMTP Server | smtp.ndsu.edu | Various terms your device may use for this are "Outgoing SMTP relay", "Email relay", "SMTP Server" or something similar. |
| Port | 587 (preferred) or 25 | smtp.ndsu.edu can accept email from registered devices on either port 587 or port 25. Port 587 is preferred, but if your device doesn't support email submission via port 587 or if it works less reliably using port 587, then consider using port 25. |
| Encryption | Required | smtp.ndsu.edu supports TLS 1.2 encryption. |
| Authentication | Not required | Because you have registered the device with the NDSU IT Resource Database, no additional device authentication is required. Fields for username or password can be left blank. |