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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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Migrating print drivers between terminal servers

I have two windows 2008 terminal servers. One is existing and has all the necessary print drivers installed. How do I migrate the drivers from one to the other without having to install these manually. I don't need to migrate the printers, just the…
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VBScript:Verifying if printer share exists

Is there a way to determine in VBScript, if a print share is in existence on a print server? The idea is to remove the connection to that printer in the event the share is removed from the server. A file share is a matter if checking for an existing…
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Device-based permissions in a Windows Printing environment

We have a student lab that uses a single color printer and multiple print queues to handle color and b/w prints. We're also using pcounter for our auditing. We're moving off of Novell's NDPS system and onto Windows 2008, and I've hit a bit of a wall…
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Printing from Amazon VPC Windows Remote Desktop Server

I spun up a Remote Desktop Server instance on Amazon's Virtual Private Cloud service... What's the best/easiest way to print from the VPC to local printers? The local printers are IP based, but not "cloud printers". I'm familiar with how Cloud…
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Printer Issues w/ Server 2k8 R2 and Windows 7

We have an HP LaserJet 4000 and an HP Color LaserJet 3600, both trying to manage from Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 (Print Management) and deploy to Windows 7 x86. For the HP LaserJet 4000: HP's site says "Install the driver included in Windows 7 or…
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Unix printing a banner page on every print job

I have a Data General server on unix that is printing a banner page on every print. I originally thought that the banner page was comming from the printer. As this is an HP printer, I used telnet to get to the jetadmin and then proceded to disable…
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Print Preview Blank IE8

On a Windows XP, in IE8 print preview always appears completely blank except for header information. I can open the generated temp file in firefox and print it from there. I have tried browsing without addons to no success. I have tried re-creating…
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Dedicated Print Server appliance?

I am looking to replace several hundred servers in my organization that happen to each be at a remote location. Our only hangup is printing, as the servers currently act as File/Print servers for each location's users. I've been looking for a…
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Simple network queue daemon for port 9100 printer

I have a printer that is connected via the port 9100 aka AppSocket aka JetDirect protocol, which is basically no protocol at all but everything that is sent to that port is interpreted as print data. However, when a second connection is opened, the…
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How to create different printer profiles for different paper types on Windows XP?

I am often switching between different types of paper and lanscape/portrait for printing on the same computer on Windows XP. Can I create different profiles for the same printer so I can easily switch between different paper/layout settings?
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Unable to print multiple copies

I have a HP4000 printer that I just added a network card to and now I can not print multiple copies with it. My OS is Windows 7 (64 bit). I am using a PCL5 print driver. anyone have any ideas of how I might be fix this.
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Citrix query over snmp for a virtual printer that does not support snmp

I need a suggestion on how to make this to work. We have a print server which has some "pcl to pdf" converter application that listens on port 9001, collects PCL jobs and creates PDF from PCL. The problem is that pcl to pdf application does not…
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Printing problems on a member of my TS farm

I have 2 , Server 2008R2 boxes as members of a Terminal Server farm. I can use the printui.dll command "Rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /ga /c\" to successfully add printers globally to one of the machines. (The printers reside on our print…
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Brother 5980CN updating recent firmware

How to update a firmware when the current one is already a recent one? I need to do that in order to change language. I bought a Brother 5890CN printer. Unfortunately, it has only Scandinavia languages enabled. I tried unsuccessfully to update the…
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Printing from Linux to HP P4515x Mailbox

I need to be able to print from my CentOS 5 server to our HP P4515x printer mailbox (output bin/stacker). I am already able to print as normal from the server to the printer but I cannot figure out how to get the paper to print to the stacker. I…
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