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Printing is the writing of data in a human-readable format onto durable media such as paper.

Printing is the writing of data in a human-readable format onto durable media such as paper.

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Are there standard, non-Postcript alternatives to PPDs for informing print queue software such as Cups of printer capabilities?

Postscript printer description files (PPDs) describe Adobe Postscript (PS) printers’ capabilities, thus being useful both for print queue servers and printing clients. Are there equivalents for other page languages, such as Microsoft Graphics…
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What is the Print3D deviceType on Windows Print-Server

I've been working with Get-Printer and I ran into a situation where the server returns two instances of every print device. One is called "Print" and the other is "Print3D". I can't find any information about this online and I'm wondering what this…
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Printing to network printers from 32-bit and 64-bit clients

Here at work, we're starting to contemplate the implications of switching from windows XP to windows 7. We have thin clients using XP embedded and Citrix metaframe 4.5 that print to network printers (Konica Minolta's and HP's) and Desktop/Laptop…
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AD printer installs require admin rights

I'm working on overhauling how we manage printers in one environment. We have a print server where folks can hit \\servername and select the printer(s) desired. This works perfectly - no UAC prompts, trust prompts, etc. I'd like to make use of the…
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What GPO settings will allow non-admin users to add wireless printer

I've configured GPO settings to allow non-admins users to add printers. The two settings are: Computer Configuration/Policies/Administrative Templates/System/Driver Installation/Allow non-administrators to install drivers for these device setup…
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Konica Minolta multifunction printers default to double sided printing

We have 50 machines that use 3 different models of Konica Minolta printers: bizhub C3850FS bizhub C258 bizhub C280 I've been installing the latest driver and it has been brought to my attention that these printers are defaulting to printing on…
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Print Seperator files on Server 2016 not working in an alternate location

With Server 2008 R2 and 2012R2, we were able to have the *.sep files stored in a location outside of System32, C:\SepFiles\coversheet.sep. As long as the folder had the name SepFiles it was working. We recently installed a new 2016 Server and have…
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Deploying (gpo) local TCP/IP printers to users who are not local admin

I'm trying to deploy local TCP/IP printers to users who are not local admin using GPO. However, because they are not local admin they do not have the rights to install printers and thus the printers are not being added when the group policy is…
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Applications locking up when printing to a print server

I have a few printers set up on a print server. When some of my users try to print, the first print job seems to go through fine. After that, trying to send another print job to a printer completely locks up the application they are printing from,…
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How can I allow Domain Users to update printer drivers without any prompts?

Each time Xerox release a new printer driver and we update our network printers on our servers we have to go around each domain computer and enter the Administrator details in to the update printer driver prompt. Until this is done the users cannot…
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Printserver failing after changing DNS servers

We are currently swapping our DNS servers out, going from an older IP range to a newer one. The network side has been setup and working fine for a couple of years, there are just a few servers still in the old range that are needing moved over. …
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Best way for printing (semi-)unique coupon codes

this is not strictly a server admin problem, but one I (as an admin) am tasked to resolve. Marketing wants to send out coupons with our packages. The code I thought up was something along the line: HITS-#MERCHANT#-#COUPONITERATION# So we can track…
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Zebra label printer not printing correctly across network - via usb is fine

I'm having a major problem with our Zebra ZTC LP2844-Z We have the printer plugged into an HP JetDirect 175x, and this has an ip address of 10.0.9.21 I've added the printer to our print server machine, and shared it on the network as…
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Print queue tracking

I would like to track printing to network printers. Specifically, how many color prints each user is printing to specific Windows server print queues. I've found a product that does something similar by Ricoh called PCS Director but it is…
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Printing from C# using too many handles

I have a very simple application that is printing TIFF files to a variety of networked printers. The printers are all installed on 3 different print servers, while the application runs on a separate machine. (Lets call them Print1,2,3, and…
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