Questions tagged [printer]
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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 need to be very comprehensive, just a simple…

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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 up spending 30 odd mins a week searching for and…

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CUPS printer on Vritual Machine can be access via CUPS admin, but not by XP?
I have a Zebra label printer connected to a Linux Mint virtual machine. It was set up with CUPS and a Windows XP computer can then print to it via http://192.168.1.76:632/printers/labelprinter. That was all fine and dandy
I then hooked up a Fargo…

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HP Officejet 4500 G510n-z Not Showing up in Remote Desktop (Terminal Services)
I installed this printer on a windows XP machine. First using the wireless option, and later using USB.
In both cases when I connect to my other computer (also Windows XP) via terminal services and check printers in the local resources tab it does…

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Deleting jobs from Job History on Xerox Workcentre Pro 123
How do you delete one or more fax jobs from the Job History on a Xerox Workcentre Pro 123? The Xerox Workcentre Pro 123 is a combination copier, printer, scanner and fax machine, and it keeps a history of the numbers dialed for sending faxes,…

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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.
The printer in question is a 'Samsung M267x 287x Series'. (Which is now…

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Altering the horizontal alignment on a Lexmark T642
I have a user that is printing on top of pre-printed forms on a Lexmark T642 and so the page alignment needs to be very exact so that the data they print lines up with the boxes.
Currently the form is printing about 3/4 of a character off to the…

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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 setup a static IP on each printer manually got…

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Print jobs are getting stuck in the queues of the printers on the Print server (Windows server 2016)
Print jobs are getting stuck in the queues of the printers on the Print server (Windows server 2016)
The printout are being printed only after the affected printers are physically restarted.
The printers are Industrial Zebra (different models) . Not…

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is it possible to append the filename to the job-id of all jobs submitted to a CUPS printer?
as the title suggests, I want to append the filenames of files I print to the actual job-ID in CUPS.
so if for instance i ran:
lp some-file.pdf
the job-ID would be: d00001-001somefile.pdf
The reason I want to do this is that the printer interacts…

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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 re-connects, their default printer changes to a…

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How to access a device connected in another switch, which is in another subnet
How are you? I hope you're doing well.
As you can see by the tittle im facing a problem trying to access a device, a printer to be more specific, in another swithc which is in another subnet. This is my first week in the new job and first thing…

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Access print connected to another switch
I have two servers (NethServer and Zend) "creating" two different IP pools. These two servers are connected to different switches, one of the switches has a printer connected. So, how do I make the computers on the other switch communicate with the…

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Why Get-PrinterProperty returns nothing but Get-Printer son0011 works?
PS C:\Windows\system32> Get-Printer son0011
Name ComputerName Type DriverName PortName Shared Published De
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Why printers are not accepting IP address from DHCP
I have moved two printers from network to subnet. Since doing that the printers are not accepting assigned IP address. I can see when looking in bluecats (proteus) that the device is showing up and it has an assigned IP. However, when I look a the…

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