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How do you add or remove printers from the Select a Printer list?

Within a Windows domain that has a mix of Windows Server 2003 and 2008 R2 print servers, how do you add or remove printers from the list of printers that Windows 7 clients retrieve at the Select a printer window? You get to this windows by selecting…
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Printer server drivers for Samsung ML printer series

I have a Printer Server running server 2008. I'm trying to setup some Samsung ML printers on it (ML-3050, 2150 and 2570 printers). The print server is server 2008 and all my clients are Windows 7 x86. I just never know which drivers to get for…
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Windows Server 2008 R2 Cluster Print Server Failure

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 failover cluster environmental that is having some issues with the print server application. I recently changed it's preferred node from one to the other, and with this change a handful of XP machines, never any of my…
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Download FreeBSD print system

Where can I get to download FreeBSD print system? I have webmin installed on mac os x 10.6.4 and when i want to setup printer administration i get this error The spool directory /var/spool/lpd does not exist on your system, which indicates that the…
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Unsigned 64 bit printer driver on 32 bit server

In our company, we have a 32 bit Windows 2008 print server. I have successfully installed many printers with both 32 bit and 64 bit drivers. We have two Xerox Wide Format printers and I cannot install the 64 bit drivers. I believe it's because they…
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Unable to move print spooler on Windows Server 2008R2

I have installed the Print and Document Services role on a fresh Windows Server 2008R2 Enterprise box that is fully updated and on my domain. I have a second hard drive "E:\" that I would like to have my spooler on. Whenever I change the spooler…
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Windows 7 Printing to a network printer

We have a print server running Windows Server 2008. Clients that use Windows XP with a logon script to map have no problems printing. When I test printing to a network printer on a Windows 7 machine, it works fine up to a few machines. As soon as I…
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Printer in a AD double side printing

I've got a printer in my Active directory, but it's standard set to double sided printing but the problem is the printer doesn't support that so you have to switch it manually. I've found the setting for the user, but it is automatically set to the…
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Set Independent Default Print Settings for Different Users

Problem: Our network deployed printers are set to default to print in black & white for cost savings. A few users want to print in color all the time, and are very annoyed at having to manually override the printer defaults every time. Question: Is…
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Windows server shared printer appears on search but doesnt exist on server

A deleted printer HER_W001 appears on AD search, filtered by location HER AD Search Although this printer doesn't exist on the server anymore. Print Management How to solve this?
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Locked Print Settings Preservation When Updating Driver

I have a set of Ricoh printers on a print server. When I want to deploy a new version of the driver, it erases the printing preferences of all users mapped to the queue share. Example, if someone uses locked printing and sets a pin with username as…
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How to print Leopard 10.5.8 (w/Epson on Netgear WGPS606)

I am trying to access my Epson Stylus Photo R1900 which is connected to my Netgear WGPS606. I am currently running OSX 10.5.8. I was able to print directly from my machine without any problems and I was able to print over the network with my…
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"keep printed documents" re-enabling itself

We have Windows Server 2016 as a print server with roughly 40 printers of various makes (Ricoh, HP, Konica), most of which are deployed via GPO. A few months ago the 'jobs in queue' started filling up after jobs are printed. We disable the 'Keep…
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Spooler stops printing when more than one file is sent

I have a problem that I am pulling my hair over! On Windows Server 2012 R2 there are several shared, new, Canon printers. Drivers are installer a new, and all is dandy. Or should be. However, when the users try to print more than one document, the…
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Printing when print server is offline

We are searching for a way to allow client computers utilizing a print server (2012 R2+) to still print even when the print server is down? It seems that all jobs try to get sent to the network printer via print server for every job. We have tried…
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