Hi all,
I've recently installed some printers on Windows Server 2012 R2 to be shared on Windows 7 machines. I had no problems installing or sharing them, or installing them on the client machines. That was until a user discovered that when they'd change their preferences on one printer (to A5 sheets), those settings would be carried across to another of their installed printers (a different model).
I checked the drivers to discover that a number of the printers are using the Microsoft Enhanced Point and Print Compatibility Drivers instead of their native drivers.
I did a bit of reading on the subject and understand what this driver is, it doesn't seem right that it should be carrying settings between different print devices that use this driver?
Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know how to rectify it? We can't require users to change their settings each time they want to print to a different networked printer.