well, if you are implementing Oracle Fusion, first thing which you should do even before shaking the hand of the client is create a task for the printer set up. Task itself is very easy but you know how it is to work with the network team of client is. They will have their own priorities and all their tasks will be evaluated against the legitimate security concern. And lets accept it, Printing from fusion will not be on top of their list either. so my experience: give yourself sufficient time and start following up on the very first day.
Lets begin. since Oracle Fusion Cloud is a cloud ( how smart I am :P), means your printer and Oracle Cloud will not be connected directly. Have a look at the below diagram. 
As you can see, your printer and Oracle Cloud are separated by the Client firewall. so they can’t communicate with each other. What we need to get done from client’s network team is to make them whitelist the Oracle Clouds IP addresses so that traffic originated from those IPs can enter the client network. Below is the list of IP addresses which need to be whitelisted by your client depending on the data center. ( This list is valid as of 3/30/2020. Do visit the Oracle link “https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?_afrLoop=83101233921045&parent=DOCUMENT&sourceId=1554333.1&id=1964157.1&_afrWindowMode=0&_adf.ctrl-state=9mq1r6g7d_145” for the updated list).
At the same time, get the IP address of the print server ( again most probably your clients Network team will be handling it) as well as the IPP address of the printer(s). IPP address will look something like: ipp://printers.xyz.com/printers/10001/.printer. Also request the networking team to install the print server such a way that traffic coming from the opened port of the firewall is received by the print server. As a precaution against the cyber attacks, ask the networking team to make the printers password protected. ( not necessary but will save you some cursing from client later in the game).
Once you have done this, go to your BI adming page (URL will look like: https://ABCD-EFG.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/xmlpserver) –> Administration –> Delivery –> Printer. Click on Add server. Give the details which you have already obtained from the networking team. Pretty self explanatory fields I must say like:
- Printer Name ( Name it reasonably)
- IPP Address ( as given to you by networking team)
- User name and password ( if printer is password protected, or keep it blank).
- Authentication type –> Basic
- Your printer set up is done. Now you just need to create a very basic report to test it. So create a report, schedule it and send the output to the printer. If report ends up in success, congratulations, your connectivity is fine.
If it doesn’t, collaborate with the networking team of the client and ask them to monitor the traffic. Schedule the report to send the output to the printer. And track if the incoming traffic from Oracle IPs was allowed to enter the firewall. If yes, did it reach the print server. If yes again, which printer did print server send the traffic to.
Happy Printing!!!
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