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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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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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Why do I get an "No default printer" error when using "ssh lpr" but not when I ssh in?

I have a remote (linux) server that I ssh to from my (also linux) pc to print my stuff. Everything works if I do: ssh ${remote_server} (now in remote server) lpr readme.txt Or: ssh ${remote_server} lpr readme.txt -P$PRINTER …
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Will a gigabit JetDirect card make a difference?

We have a HP Color LaserJet 4650 running a JetDirect model J3113A JD33, ROM G.07.19, Revision G.08.49, connected at 100Mbps. The memory has been maxed out at 544MB However, this particular printer seems to have more than it's fair share of…
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reporting services 2008 R2 shows UAC for printing ActiveX after .NET 4.0 installation

Installed the latest updates on the server. Now every time I try to print from a reporting service website the UAC opens.. I already tried to reduce security within IE9 to the minimum, but with no success so far. Any ideas? Update: I disabled UAC…
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Erase Sharp Printer Hard Disk?

I have a number of Sharp MX-M550 printers that are at the end of their useful life. Each device has a hard disk. Can anyone advice as to how I go about erasing the drives either whilst they're in the devices or how to remove them from the devices…
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Share network printer on the lowest network

Here's the setup: MODEM | ROUTER 1 WAN IP: (INTERNET), LAN IP: 192.168.1.1 -> PC1 192.168.1.100 -> PC2 192.168.1.101 | ROUTER 2 WAN IP: 192.168.1.254, LAN IP: 192.168.2.1 -> PC3 192.168.2.100 -> PC4 192.168.2.101 | ROUTER 3 WAN IP:…
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Network printer waking up every 15 minutes without any printing jobs

We have a new Xerox 6121MFPN laser printer in the office. We use network printing, so this printer is connected to a Linksys WAG320N router (to port 1, if it matters). When we do not print anything for a while, in 5 minutes the printer goes to…
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Which part of my OS is bringing up this OpenCurPrinter dialog?

One of our Enterprisey systems has a long-running batch process that sometimes get interrupted by the following popup dialog: OpenCurPrinter: printer: \\FS3\HP30351st, port: Ne00:, drive: winspool Error initializing the printer (where…
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troubleshooting a printer problem

I have a large Kyocera Printer/Scanner/Copier machine in a office with three PCs (all plugged into a lan via router. The three PCs all have individual printers (inkJets) hooked directly via printer port. However, I would like to print from each PC…
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Can someone explain the behavior of the Printers and Faxes share?

In most cases, navigating to \\%hostname% will show a share called "Printers and Faxes". In some cases, I've found that this share does not appear. Under what circumstances does this share exist/not exist? I'm mostly just interested in getting it…
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Group Policy, Printers and Additional Domain Controller

We have a number of Windows Server 2008 R2 on our network, one is the master domain controller and another is the additional domain controller. When I setup the additional domain controller (with the intention of creating a level of redundancy) I…
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Canon ImageRunner printing PDFs very slow?

Perhaps this isn't a good ServerFault question, but here goes: We've got some Canon ImageRunner copiers, and the performance is terrible for printing PDF files. For instance I just sent a job that's 11 pages, and it's taking some twenty minutes to…
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Printer Deployment Issue

I've got some network printers shared on a 2003 server. I set them as deployed in a GPO. All my XP machines get the printer. My windows 7 machines show success in applying the policy, but the printers do not appear in the list. Any ideas? I have the…
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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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Why I can't se my network printer inside an app accessed via Citrix web client?

I'm using citrix web client to access some apps and from them I can't print to my network printer. Citrix redirects my local usb atached printer just fine, but it doesn't redirect my network printer. What do I need to do, that I will be able to use…
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