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How do print servers work?
In general, print servers are used to both distribute drivers to client computer and centrally process and manage the print jobs. In large environments it's useful to have homogeneous drivers (which ...
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How do print servers work?
A printer shared using Windows' file and printing sharing is exported via the SMB/CIFS protocol, which by itself provide little more than a "networked pipe" to the printing device. In other words, the ...
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printer not responding using CUPS
The simplest and most reliable way:
On Windows server connected to the printer install feature LPR Port Monitor
In the printer properties on the Sharing tab, check the box "Share this printer" and ...
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Printer outputting seemingly useless strings
Please change the printer driver you are using. Those issue is because the language the driver use is not recognized by the printer.
Its like using a postscript driver for a printer that does not ...
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Unable to deploy printers via GPO User Configuration after Windows update KB5005033 got installed ("Do you trust this printer?" issue)
Microsoft published a summary of various solutions we can use to manage the new behavior.
Specifically:
Install print drivers when the new default setting is enforced
If you set ...
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Windows GPO printer deployment not appearing for new profiles
If you wanted to back out, add the registry value HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers!PointAndPrintRestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators to 0 in a GPO. But you also should ...
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How to configure a server to support 10-20 hp thin clients
A machine running Windows 7 or 8 is not a server, by definition. It will allow a single client to connect to a remote desktop, and it will limit overall client connections (file sharing, printer ...
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Deploy Printers GPO not working after PrintNightmare restrictions
Most the time it's the driver class that cause you that headache. Type 3 can, or can not prompt for an admin credential even if you have preinstalled the driver into the machine. It's a try for all of ...
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Working on Printers GPO
This error;
Group Policy was unable to add per computer connection
\\DTN-Ricoh. Error code 0xBCB. This can occur if the name of
the printer connection is incorrect, or if the print spooler cannot
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Where are these printers coming from in "Devices and Printers?"
It appears to be a bug/problem with "Client Side Rendering" of print jobs in Windows IF the user profile is deleted through a mechanism like Delprof or the Delete user profiles older than a ...
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Unable to deploy printers via GPO User Configuration after Windows update KB5005033 got installed ("Do you trust this printer?" issue)
I've found out two possible solutions, both of them do not provoke any UAC/admin rights prompt:
Switch to Computer Configuration deployment instead (CC -> Pr -> Control panel -> Printers -&...
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What would be the most reliable way of capturing print jobs over a network?
Set up Samba on the Linux box, set up a shared "printer" that calls a script to save as PDF plus do whatever and even eventually print a hard copy.
The Samba config snippet might look like
[...
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Managing Network Printers in Non-AD enviroment
Google Cloud Print can be provisioned to specific users and groups. You or someone technical can rename them to something more unique than their model number.
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SNMP is it possible to monitor shared printers?
You could install nrpe server on your server and send snmp requests from your server to yours printers. Nrpd will receive the response of yours printers and send it to your supervisor.
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Group Policy Printer Mapping: Some printers are being skipped
All of your comments were great possibilities and certainly things to check in a case like this, but it turns out my issue was that the preferences were item-level targeted to members of a specific ...
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Foxit virtual PDF printer
Maybe you can use Print&Share as your virtual printer for this with a File Printer channel to create PDF files.
See www.printandshare.info
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Deploying printers to specific users via Group Policy
One way could be to define environment variables %CustomPrinterShare% either per user that needs one or per computer if that suits you better, containing the path or part of the path to the custom ...
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Server 2008 print server with existing printers
Installing the Print Management Role will have no effect on the currently installed shared printers, so you can do this without any risk to your current setup.
The Print Management snapin will show ...
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Google Cloud Print Fails - Finding Logs?
Have you attempted to use the alternate PS package instead of the existing PCL6 iteration?
Judging by your screen shot, you're currently using the PCL6 V3 print driver made for windows 8/8.1 found ...
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How to install Windows 7 printer drivers on XP print server?
you do not need to install additional drivers on window xp. here perform steps to printer work on both PC.
1.Install printer on window xp with universal 32 bit driver name as PCL5.(Search with name ...
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