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Firewall. Use this page to view or configure a f irewall policy. A firewall policy consists of up to 10 rules, 
where each rule specifies the IP addresses and services allowed by the print server and device. To ad d a rule, 
click  ‘Add Rule ’. This setting  runs a wizard that will help you configure each rule.   
IPsec  /  Firewall . Use this page to view or configure an IPsec  /  firewall policy. An IPsec  /  firewall policy 
consists of up to 10 rules. As with a f irewall policy, each rule specifies the IP addresses and services allowed by 
the print server and device. With IPsec support, you can apply IPsec authentication and encryption protocols for 
those addresses and services. To add a rule, click  ‘Add Rule’. This runs a wiza rd that will help you configure 
each rule.   
 
For a detailed description of wizard settings and additional help, click 
Jetdirect IPsec/Firewall Help.   
 
3.9  SNMPv3  
 
You can enable and disable the SNMP v3 agent from your printer. You may set up an account that allows a 
management application to access the SNMP v3 agent.  
 
 
 
 
 
						

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3.10 CA/JD Certificates  
You can request, install, and manage dig ital certificates on the HP JetDirect print server. Certificates are used to 
identify the Jet Direct print server both as a valid Web server for network clients, and as a valid client requesting 
access on a secu re network. By default, the JetD irect print server contains a self -signed preinstalled certificate.  
 
3.11  Hide IP from front panel  
Some printers includes an option in the Service Menu, accessible with the help of an HP Support agent only, 
that allows you to hide all IP information from the printer ’s front panel.  
3.12 Encrypt web communications  
You can securely manage the network device using a Web browser and the HTTPS protocol. To authenticate the 
HP JetDirect Web Server when HTTPS is used ,  yo u may configure a certificate, o r you may use the pre-installed, 
self -signed X.509 Certificate. The encryption strength specifies what ciphers the w eb server will use for secure 
communications. Supported cipher suites are DES, RC4, 3DES.  
 
By enabling encryption, the w eb server encrypts all  web communication , forcing all connections to use HTTPS. 
E nabling encryption  can also  be configured to allow both HTTP (unencrypted) and HTTPS connections. In secure 
environments, you should choose to encrypt all  web communications. Otherwise, sensitive management data 
(Ad ministrator Password, SNMP Community Names, and secret keys) may be compromised.  
 
 
 
 
						

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3.13 Disable USB drive  
You can use this option to disable the USB  drive preventing somebody connecting a  device to print or to scan 
images.   
 
 
 
 
3.14 Disable firmware update throug h USB 
This option is used to disable the possibility of upgrading the printer by  installing the firmware via a USB device . 
3.15  Disable direct print using ePrint&Share  
In some printers, when you connect a computer  directly with a USB cable, you can print without installing any 
driver.  This can be done by  launching  the ePrint&Share application that resides inside the printer. This feature 
can disable direct printing  so that you cannot print through the  USB unless you have the driver (or ePrint&Share) 
installed in the  computer.  
3.16 Disable ePrint connectivity  
This feature disables the ePrint Center functionality  preventing somebody printing remotely to the printer . 
3.17  Disable internet connection  
Disable the direct connection of the printer to the i nternet. This option would also prevent the printer from 
automatic ally performing firmware upgrades.  
 
 
 
						

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3.18 Printer Access control  
For some printers, when setting an Embedded Web Server admin password you are also preventing  access to 
ce rtain front panel features.  The features protected in the front panel are:  
•   Network connectivity (including also Internet connectivity and Diagnostics&troubleshooting of the 
network connectivity) 
•   Control firmware upgrades  
•   Setup  
•   Reset factory defaults  
•   External hard disk connection 
•   Security  
 
If a user loses the admin password, it is not possible to reset it so the printer would be locked. There is a service 
menu option to reset the admin password.  
3.19 External hard disk (EHD)  
Some printers allow the connecti on of an external hard disk.  Any HP Designjet printer with an internal hard 
disk uses is for four main purposes:  
•   Store the printer’s firmware & resources (media profiles, demo plots, diagnostic plots).  
•   Virtual memory for job processing.  
•   Job storage/queue  
•   Storage for printer’s accounting data.  
The HP Designjet External Hard Disk was designed to fulfill one specific use for those security conscious 
customers that want to preserve the confidentiality of the jobs being printed in their HP  Designjet printers.  
 
How the system works  
 
1. Connect  the External Hard Disk ( EHD)  into the printer’s USB host port . 
2.  The printer will detect the EHD  and will ask the customer for permission to install it. When the customer 
accepts, the printer will perform the following step : 
3.  A c opy  will be made of all  the  custome r’s information  that is stored in the internal HD  and copied to the 
external HD . 
4.  The customer’s internal HD partition will be deleted after  a highly secure erasing process (
DoD 5220.22 -
M).  
5.  The printer  will be configured  to use the EHD as the repository for  ALL customer jobs (including the 
temporary  processing storage area) . 
6.  Once the EHD has being installed, all the customer jobs will ALWAYS be stored in the EHD  
7.  When  the printer is switched off,  as a security measure, the EHD can be removed and kept in a secure 
location .  
Notes:  
•   Once the printer has an EHD installed  it can no longer be initialized without it.  
•   If for any  reason the installed EHD is no longer available (the customer loses the EHD, or the EHD is  
broken), there is a mechanism (through a special bootmode controlled with an specific front panel  key 
combina tion) that reconfigures the printer to work without the EHD . However in that particular case, all the 
information stored in the EHD is lost.  
•   Once the EHD is installed on a particular printer, it becomes  fully tied to it. It is not possible to move this 
EHD  to another HP  Designjet printer without losing the stored information. When the printer detects an EHD 
 
						

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that has been installed on a different printer, it will advise the customer about it. If the customer decides to 
go ahead and use the EHD on a different printer, the printer will erase the contents of the EHD (once again, 
using the highly secure 
DoD 5220.22- M process) 
•   The EHD has its  own software based encryption mechanism tha t prevents anyone  reading  the contents of 
the EHD, for instance, by  plugging it into a PC. The encryption system is not a  standard one and cannot be 
considered as an extremely secure encryption mechanism ( such as th e standard encryption system  
DES, 
RSA, FIPS 140…), but it does add a level of security that makes it difficult when trying to read  the contents 
by just connecting the disk to a PC.   
The EHD is not intended to be used as an USB memory stick, that is, to copy documents from a PC, plug it into 
the printer and to print them.   
 
4.  Designjet Security features vs LaserJet  
HP LaserJet printers have some security features that are not yet available in HP Designjet printers.  
As a brief comparison, please find the comparison between HP LJ 9050 seri es and Designjet T1200 series. 
 
Security Feature L9050 DJ T1200 
Authentication Manager  Yes No 
Control panel lock  Yes Yes 
Device Password  Yes Yes 
Direct Connect Ports (USB/IEEE 1284)  Yes Yes 
File erase mode Yes Yes 
File system access settings  Yes No 
File system password  Yes WJA only  
Job Held Timeout  Yes No 
Job Retention  Yes No 
PJL Password  Yes No 
Remote FW upgrade  Yes Yes 
 
   
 
						

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5. Glossary  
Active Directory (AD)  
An advanced, hierarchical directory service that comes with Microsoft 
Windows servers (version 2000 or later). It is LDAP -compliant and built on the 
domain naming system (DNS) used on the  Internet. Workgroups are given 
domain names, exactly like Web sites, and any LDAP -compliant client  – such 
as Windows, Mac, or Unix  – can gain access.  
Adobe PostScript  Developed by Adobe, this is the standard page description language (PDL) 
for the graphics arts industry and commercial printing. Many printing devices 
support PostScript with a built-
in PostScript interpreter 
Color Access Control  Settings to determine which users and/or applications are allowed to print in 
color
 
Device Password   
(LJ  feature)   This is equivalent to 
the designjet’s web server password. It helps protect the 
printer from unauthorized access through remote applications  
Domain Naming System 
(DNS)  C
onverts host names and domain names into IP addresses on the i nternet or 
on local networks that use the TCP/IP protocol.  
Embedded Web Server 
(EWS) 
The EWS resides on a hardware device (such as an HP Designjet) or in the 
printer firmware. 
The EWS allows you to review, configure, and change 
settings on an HP Designjet after inputtin g an IP address into a Web browser 
from your computer  
File System Access 
settings   
(LJ feature)  
  File system access settings: The File System Access options allows
 you  to 
completely disable many of the access points to the printer ’s data storage 
system. T hese access points are for various types of usage for the printer. The 
options are:   
•   PJL disk access 
•   SNMP disk access  
•   NFS disk access  
•   PS disk access 
HP recommends e nabling PS Disk Access to allow you to print PS  files, and 
disable the rest  
File System Password (LJ 
feature)
 
 
The File System Password feature helps protect the printer ’s data storage 
system options from unauthorized access. With the File System password 
configured, the printer requires the password before it will allow 
configurations to features that affect the data storage system. Some of these 
features are the Secure di sk erase mode, the Secure Storage Erase feature, 
and the File System Access options.  
Hide IP address from 
front Panel  
  Option in the Service Utilities menu of the front panel to show/not show the 
Internet Protocol (IP) address of your printer. In that way
, only registered users 
or network administrations will know the correct  address to submit jobs to the 
printer   
HP Web Jetadmin  
Web-based fleet management software tool for remote installation, 
configuration, problem resolution, proactive management, and reporting. For 
more information go to; 
www.hp.com/go/webjetadmin    
IP multicast  A one
-to -many transmission of data over an IP network.  
IPSec 
 
Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a suite of protocols for securing Internet 
Protocol (IP) communications by authenticating and encrypting each IP packet 
of a data stream. IPsec also includ
es protocols for establishing mutual 
authentication between agents at the beginning of the session and negotiation 
of cryptographic keys to be used during the session.  
In our case, IPsec is used to protect data flows between the host and the 
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Job Held Timeout  
(LJ feature)  
  This feature is part of the Job Retention feature. It limits a held job to the 
selected time, and then the printer deletes it. You should select a reasonable 
timeout value for this setting to allow enough time for a user to walk to the 
printer to print a j
ob or to allow time for jobs to print in  a queue.  
Job Retention  
(LJ feature)  This feature provides job retention options such as private job and hold job. 
You
 will be able to ensure that they are present during printing to provide 
privacy for documents i n the printer output bins.  
Multicast DNS (mDNS)  Also known as Bonjour or Rendezvous, mDNS uses IP multicast with DNS to 
provide the capabilities of a DNS server for service discovery in a small 
network that does not have a DNS server
. 
PJL Password   
(LJ  feature)  
The PJL password feature helps protect the printer from unauthorized 
configurations through Print Job Language (PJL) commands. It does not affect 
ordinary print jobs. Once the PJL password is configured, the MFP requires it 
before it will process any of these commands  
Remote Firmware 
Upgrade   
(LJ feature)  This service allows an administrator to use a custom application to upgrade 
the printer’s  firmware remotely. Since HP recommends using HP Web 
Jetadmin to upgrade MFP firmware, you should disable
 Remote Firmware 
Upgrade.  
Simple Network 
Management Protocol 
(SNMP)   This is a network monitoring and control protocol
. 
SNMPv3  
  SNMP (Simple Network Management protocol) allows users to manage the 
printer using SNMP management tools, such as HP Web JetAdmin. SNMP is 
also the protocol for communicating
 from  the printer to  the Windows driver. 
SNMPv3 provides security through user authentication and data encryption  
Subnet  A 
logical division of a local area network, which is created to improve 
performan ce and provide security. A subnet limits the number of nodes that 
compete for bandwidth . 
Authentication Manager  
(LJ feature)  It allows administrators to secure Device Functions by requiring users to log in 
with a specific Log In Method for each Function. 
For example, users may be 
required to log in with an Access Code or PIN to make copies yet be required 
to log in with a username and password to send e -mails.  
Log In Methods: The following Log In Methods are available with the latest 
device firmware upgrad e: 
Group 1 PIN: Requires users to input a numeric code for access when at the 
control panel of the device. The numeric code entered by the walk up user is 
compared to the first of two PINs stored on the device by the Administrator. 
When the PIN is entered correctly, the user can proceed.  
Group 2 PIN: Requires users to input a numeric code for access when at the 
control panel of the device. The numeric code is compared to the second of 
two PINs stored on the device by the Administrator.  
LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Requires users to input a 
username and password that are verified by an LDAP server.  
HP Digital Send Service (if available): Also known as DSS. Requires users to 
enter credentials that are verified by the HP Digital Send Service sof tware. 
(HP Digital Send Service software must be available to use this Log In 
Method. If no DSS server is associated with this device, walk -up users will not 
be required to authenticate before using the device.)  
Kerberos: Requires users to enter a username and password to be verified by 
a Windows Server  
 
 
						

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For more information   
About HP Designjet printers: 
www.hp.com/go/designjet 
About HP WebJetAdmin: 
www.hp.com/go/webjetadmin    
 
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April 2012