Cerner Printer Initial Set-up - Favorites & Default

Printer Default and Favorites

There are a couple of ways to print in Cerner. The new user printer dropdown will show every printer and fax in the Cerner system for Oklahoma Surgical Hospital (Cerner acronym is ORHO_OK)
Setting up printer defaults and printer favorites cleans up the drop down to just the needed printers for end users.

Step by step Set up Instructions

Open the Cerner Production shortcut on your desktop or a [link] in your browser (use Google Chrome).
Enter your Cerner login credentials.

Graphical user interface

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Click on the Find Person icon.
Search for and select a test patient:
1. Type ZZTEST in the Last Name field. Click the Search button
2. There will be a pop up that states the search strength is low, click the Yes button
3. Click one time on MRN in top box on right to select and then click one time on an encounter in the bottom right box, then click OK.

On the right side of the window select the Facesheet option. Click on the Print icon above the Person/Encounter Information to open the Print window.

The Printer pop up box has a dropdown field that is defaulted for new users with every printer and fax in the Oklahoma Surgical Hospital listed. Note: while setting up printer favorites and default, do not click the OK button since we don’t want to actually print anything.

Right click the blue drop down box to the left of the tiny arrow to open an additional menu (right clicking in Cerner is one of the keys to success).
Select Filter Type and then Printer. Now the printer dropdown will only show Printers.
Click the Printer drop down arrow to see the listing of Printers in the hospital
Each printer has a unique name.
1. ORHO indicates the Oklahoma Surgical Hospital
2. The number indicates the Floor that the printer is located on.
3. Next there is a description of the drawers on the printer
4. For example: orho07nurse desk is the printer located on the OSH 7^th floor Inpatient Unit at the nursing station with regular paper. (nursedesklbl is the second drawer at the nursing station that contains labels instead of paper).
5. There are also virtual printers built out when documents need to be saved instead of printed. Those are named orho virtual with name. Example: orhovitualimaging goes to an imaging folder in the hospital’s network folders - S:\Cerner Virtual Printers
Once you select the desired printer, right click on the name of the printer in the blue box to bring up the pop up then click on “Add to Favorites”
You can do this for any printer or virtual printer that you might use. You can also set your primary printer as the Default
Once you are done “Adding to Favorites”, then right click to change your filter type to Favorties.

Now your printer drop down will only contain the printers you selected instead of every printer in the hospital. Click on the cancel button when finished.since we are not actually printing yet.