Questions tagged [printer]
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Group Policy deploying printers
We moved our print server to another computer and IP. The Servers are all running Win Server 2008 R2. All clients are Windows 7 Pro 64bit.
I was under the assumption, that 'Replace' will either add ...
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how to view log files for printing made by different users on LAN
I have a windows 2003 server and have attached a printer to this server.
This printer is installed on the server and shared to all computers on the local area network.
I want to check to see which ...
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How do I configure the IP address of an IBM 4247-003 printer?
Apparently this is really hard. The printer was bought to replace a twinax-connected printer, but the installer was struggling with two issues:
How do you set the IP address, netmask and gateway for ...
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Printer Management
On our network we are getting an error every time we attempt to add a printer or sometimes print to printers. The error states that new drivers are needed to installed to print however we are using ...
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Canon IR Advanced C2020 Won't Print From a Mac
I’m having an issue with a Canon IR Advanced C2020 on the Mac side. We have the printer connected to the network and printing from Windows machines using the UFRII driver but I can’t seem to get any ...
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Windows 7 logon scripts -- set default printer
I have been tasked with troubleshooting a logon script at a client site that among other things sets the default printer. The logon script is vbscript with the printer being set using
Set ...
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Bonjour multifunction not recognized
I'm using 3 different macOS systems. Only 1 of these systems is able to recognize that my multifunction printer is also a scanner. The other 2 only recognize it as a printer.
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Faster way to add IP scopes to Item Level Targeting?
I have a GPO with printers mapped via the user preferences. Each printer needs to be item-level targeted only to computers in a specific IP range. I have a list of about 92 ranges that need to be ...
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How to add printer to Active Directory in Windows Server 2016?
I have a few printers which I can view in Print Management. I have enabled in two of them "List in Directory" option, but they don't appear under Active Directory Users and Computers. Where exactly ...
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Printer recognized but not printing. CUPS
I'm using a HP 1000 J110 connected to a server which I access via ssh. I use lsusb and it appears there. Then, I Pasted the PPD on the /etc/cups/ppd/ folder... Is the ppd my pc uses to print when ...
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Does anyone have a full disassembly guide for an HP P4515x printer?
We are getting an error at power on that indicates a fan failure. As this printer is no longer under warranty it is falling on me to open it up and look around. I have searched HP's website and ...
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Unable to add any printers on Windows XP
One of my users' XP computer wouldn't start this morning - the problem turned out to be a corrupt registry, fixed with a chkdsk. Now everything is fine, except he's missing all his printers and can't ...
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Compromised printer?
Today the office printer produced three sheets with what seems to be random characters, and in the middle a string random1random2random3random4. This raised a red flag with us. Is this something to be ...
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Why is the wrong MIB being used during snmpwalk?
Running snmp walk for the following OID 1.3.6.1.2.1.43.11.1.1.9, which belongs to PRINTER-MIB under prtMarkerSuppliesLevel, is returning SNMPv2-SMI values. I imagine they are correct, but why is the ...
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Windows 2008 R2 Print Server. Copying printer and giving new driver
Is there a way of copying a printer on a print server (Server 2008 R2) and then giving it a new name and new print driver?
In a nutshell - 1 printer but with two names.
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HP 9050 printer web admin pages extremely slow and often unresponsive
Our HP 9050 printer web admin pages are extremely slow and often unresponsive.
The printer is on our LAN, on a different subnet. Users can use it without problem. I can ping and telnet to the printer ...
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Dell printer goes offline after second print job
Dell printer goes offline(server connection) after second print job. Although the printer's display says it is ready. If you turn off then on the printer you can send one job and goes back offline(...
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Application losing Printer within Terminal Services for remote users
Question: What I need to do is have a permanent link to a printer, normally only accessible through Terminal Services (Printer Redirect), to allow Sage Line 50 layouts to see that printer ...
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Printer Redirection Tool
I have two machines (A & B), machine A has to be able print to a local printer. The issue is that the problem it can't have any printers connected to it (network or local) - so what I want to do ...
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User's printer switches almost daily between USB002 and USB003
I have a user with a Dell Latitude D620 with a simple Dell dock in her office. She has a Brother MFC-7860DW printer connected to a USB 2.0 port on the dock.
Often (possibly 3x a week) she will come ...
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Did the solar event mess up my wireless printers?
I have 5 wireless printers on my network, Brother HL-2170CWs, and not long after the massive solar flare on Tuesday, 2 of the 5 wireless printers are failing to connect to the network.
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Hardware needed to make office printing as easy as possible?
I'm currently in an 100 person office with about 10 network printers. I'd like to have it so that any new employee who comes into the network won't have to spend time connecting to all 10+ printers to ...
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Delete old windows print jobs
On our primary windows 2003 print server we share about 500 printers. We typically have about 50 stuck print jobs. Although far from the end of the world it bugs the hell out of me and I tend to end ...
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Reduce Printer Waste and Paper Usage
We have a computer lab that we need to reduce wasted paper/ wasteful printing. This is a open use student lab for students (no user accounts). Often times students will erroneously print the same ...
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Can't seem to setup RICOH to scan to SBS 2008 shared folder
Banging my head against any hard surface trying to figure out why I cannot connect the RICOH copier to a shared folder on my SBS 2008.
Here's the particulars:
New SBS 2008 Server
New Network ...
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Upgrading HP Printer Firmware
Is there a quick way of upgrading the firmware on HP Printers? Some have instructions for upload the files via FTP, some through visiting the printer and uploading the firmware from a USB stick, and ...
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How to scan printers on Nessus?
When I try to scan a printer with Nessus 4.4.1 I got the following message:
Do not scan printers The remote host appears to be a fragile device
and will not be scanned.
How can I enable printers ...
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How can I convert a USB printer to LPT?
I have an Java enterprise app that only prints to LPT1. The problem is, the only printers available in my company are USB printers. The developers and support staff (InfoSys) for the app all say they ...
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Why is Windows XP freezing when printing to a HP LaserJet 4250?
I have a network of users running Windows XP. Their driver for the office LaserJet 4250 was working fine until a few days ago.
The printer is accessible through the web management portal, and you ...
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Remote desktop select which printer from local resource
When connecting to Windows XP via Remote Desktop (mstsc), you can select which local resources you want to take with you to the remote desktop (disc drives, clipboard, printers).
Is there a way to ...
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What is the best way to setup a network printer in an enterprise environment?
As far as I know, printers should get a static IP (with MAC and IP binding) assigned from the DHCP Server (in this case a router) so that the IP is taken from the DHCP IP pool.
An alternative to just ...
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SNMP Printer Output Count
I am trying to monitor the output of a wide-format printer (HP Designjet T120) with SNMP. I have been messing with this sporadically for a few days since I am new to SNMP. I'd like to know the total ...
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Can I ignore a GPO from another GPO?
I have 10 users and 10 computers and 5 printers. 9 of the computers are workstations and the 10th is our accounting server. Each user has a unique set of network drive mappings and printer mappings. ...
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Error when attempting to install network printer/driver using PrintUI command
I receive the following error when attempting to install a TCP/IP printer using PrintUI:
"Operation could not be completed (error 0x00000705). Windows cannot
locate a suitable printer driver. ...
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What are the basics of laser printers and their maintinance? [closed]
Printers are mysterious Pandora's boxes from Hell, of which I know little about. I turn to you demon-tamers for your knowledge.
What are the key parts of a laser printer?
What are the typical print ...
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Postscript 3 emulation
A college needs to print multitudes of documents in a Mac environment. They get quotes for similar devices from two network digital copier competitors - one boasts an Adobe PostScript 3 print driver, ...
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How do I print from across the Internet using CUPS
I work as the programmer/IT guy at a small company and I've run into a bit of a problem.
Hardware is assembled here at the office but the hardware face plates are screen printed at my house by my mom....
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Default printer change upon RDP re-connection to terminal server
When a client makes an RDP connection to their server (Not using printer redirection), the default is set to the correct printer. However, when the client closes the connection (with the X button) and ...
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Phantom printers on Windows
I have a few Windows 2012 R2 servers that all show 300 - 400 printers in Control Panel > Hardware > Devices and Printers. They also show up as print queues in Device Manager. Many of them are ...
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One KONICA MINOLTA printer reset to defaults settings on each reboot - Windows 7
I have a problem with the KONICA MINOLTA 224e printer driver for Windows 7 pro 64 bit.
When a user changes the printer settings from the control panel, for example switching from color to mono, the ...
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Simple Printer Audit Script
I'm working on Windows Server 2008 R2 and I want to create a simple script to audit the printing carried out in the company.
I would like these details to be audited in an text file in a share and ...
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Printer GPO - [ hr = 0x80070706 "The print processor is unknown." ]
Having some trouble on Windows Server 2012 / Windows 8 getting a Printer GPP (computer) to work.
Printer GPP is created in:
Computer config -> Preferences -> Control panel -> Printers
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Generic text only printer on Windows Server 2008
How do I add Generic / Text Only printer on a Windows Server 2008?
Or is there a way to create a dummy printer on a Windows Server 2008 that flushes everything sent to it to nul?
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I'm in the process of gathering quotes for multifunction copier leases...what questions should I be asking the sales people?
What sort of key questions should I be asking to determine which product/company to go with? Aside form researching the different copiers presented by the different companies (Xerox, Ricoh, Savin, and ...
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Web based printer status monitoring
I am looking for a simple solution to monitor the status of various printers/MFPs in the office and display the status on a HTML(or similar) page for office staff to view.
The monitoring does not ...
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how to find a share printer on LAN?
I just want to know how to discover a network printer IP address on LAN network or a share printer of someone else.
Can I use nmap to discover network printer ?
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Office 2007 documents sent to Ricoh printer are stored under the name of the of the user who created the doc instead of the user who printed the doc
This issue is difficult to illustrate if you aren’t familiar with how the Ricoh Aficio C2500 series printer operates and is setup in our office, so here is some necessary background.
All staff have ...
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Canon ImageRunner printing PDFs very slow?
Perhaps this isn't a good ServerFault question, but here goes:
We've got some Canon ImageRunner copiers, and the performance is terrible for printing PDF files. For instance I just sent a job that's ...
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GPO Deploy Printer Based on User Attribute
I am trying to deploy printers based on the Office attribute in AD. If a user is assigned to the Richmond office they should get those printers. Please note this is NOT location based printing. I just ...
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Something missing for PowerShell install Printer
I am trying to prepare a PowerShell script to install printers. This will be for an automated task where printer names and IP addresses will be provided as available. Most of the script appears to ...
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