Looking for direction on Server OS for new Print servers
We have a large print environment and are about to deploy around a dozen new print servers to support it throughout the enterprise.Our user base is approximately 75% 32 bit clients and 25% 64 bit...
View ArticleUsing Universal print driver, but shows completely different model and icon...
Server 2008 R2, print services role, clients: Win7I came across a weird problem yesterday. I added a new printer on our print server, when I chose the driver I used the same HP Universal PCL5 driver...
View ArticleNetwork Printing
Our users have recently been changed to super-mandatory profiles and ever since we have had problems with network printers not being available.The printers are allocated through a VB login script. When...
View ArticleTerminal Services@windows 2008Server R2 64Bit - Printer redirection Problem
Hello.I am having the following issue:On my local machine, I have "Send to OneNote 2010" Printer and "CutePDF Writer" Printer and some others Phisical printers.Every time I log on into my terminal...
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Help! 0x00000057 W2k8R2 Can not install ANY printer driver (SBS 2011)
On a newly installed SBS 2011 server (Windows 2008 R2) I can not install any kind of printer driver. I have tried several x64 drivers from Canon (IR2200 and iR4570) and HP Universal Printer x64 (for a...
View ArticlePrinters offline in windows 2008 R2
HiWhen I look into Print Management, I have some printers offline. I can print direct to the IP-address, and can acces the web-console of the printer. When I reboot the spooler it's ready and goes...
View ArticlePush default printer settings from server - setprinter.exe ?
Hi,I need to push out some new default printer settings (mono and duplex) for 300 printers across about 12 x 2003/2008 print servers. All of these devices are already mapped by around 2500 WinXP/7...
View Articlehow to restrict users from accessing a private printer on a domain
I have a group of users that have a printer in the accounting department that is filled with blank cheques. Right now, the users print directly to it via the IP address. The other users outside of the...
View ArticlePrinting Issue (Kyocera & 2008 R2 RDP)
Hello All,I have encountered an issue i can't get my head around.We have 2 RDP 2008 R2 servers (with citrix XA6). I currently have the problem that some users can't print duplex from Word anymore (any...
View ArticleProblems adding additional driver on print server
Greetings!I have a problem, i hope some of you might help me to solve.I’l start with my setup which is: Windows 2008 Server x86 with about 15 printers.We have about 500 client computers, running x86...
View ArticlePrinting - Related Registry Keys
Hi guys,I'm looking for good information on how printers are stored in the Windows registry. In particular, I'm interested in what gets stored in the following...
View ArticlePrinter not found on server, Unable to connect. Server 2008 while printing.
Hello,Since a few weeks we are encountering errors while printing on a 32 bit Citrix terminal server running Server 2008. The printers are all installed and shared on a different Server 2008 x64 print...
View ArticleInteresting printing issue- network related?
We have an interesting printing issue in one of our offices. There are three floors and the server room is downstairs. Each floor has at least one networked printer. The problem is with the networked...
View ArticlePort list blank on Server 2008 R2
Hi. I've noticed an odd behavior that seems to happen after a reboot on my print servers. I'm currently running two print server resources in an active/active cluster. Upon reboot, when viewing the...
View ArticleRemoving all printers of a specific server
We have a server that we're getting rid of. We'd like to remove this printer from all users computers before deleting it. What's the best way to remove any printer on any workstation?For example, we...
View ArticleRemote desktop redirected printer doc
I have a problem in some printers that when i conect to the terminal server 2003, The local printer (of the client's computer) begins to receive many documents redirected and can't print nothing...
View ArticleSplwow64.exe error
Hi.Our users are getting all of a sudden the follwing error when they try to print on our Xerox printers:splwow64.exe - System Error The program can't start because x2utili6.dll is missing from your...
View ArticleSetting TCP/IP printer port to hostname during deployment
We are wanting to setup Direct IP Printing for all of our small remote offices. We would like to deploy these via group policy as a TCP/IP gpp. My question is, how can we have the printer install as...
View ArticleForum FAQ: Cannot connect and print to printers via CNAME alias of printer...
Symptom When you connect to a printer on printer server via CNAME, you receive the following error message:"Windows cannot connect to the printer. Make sure that you have typed the name correctly, and...
View ArticleHow to add 32bit printer drivers on 64bit server
When I try to add 32bit drivers I get an error saying I need to load the 64bit driver.How do you load 32bit printer drivers on a 64bit server?
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