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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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Problems with identical printers having non-identical settings

(Apologies if this is in the wrong place, seems a better fit here than rather on SuperUser) We have two HP CP2025 colour printers installed on a Server 2008 Printe Server, both on HP "Universal Printer Driver, PCL 6". When you click on "Properties"…
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printing parallel over ethernet cable

I have a bit of an interesting challenge :) I have a machine with a parallel printer output, i want it to be able to print instead to a printer in a different room and i know that parallel isnt great over big distances. i found this:…
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Changing destination of a printer in lp in linux

When I type lpstat -p in bash I get: lp@linuxbox 'xerox printer in room 100' (dest lp@193.233.9.7) How do I change dest to another IP?
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Local printing from Citrix, job is paused and sends 128KB on each resume

I have a very strange issue that is affecting non-domain admin users. When a standard user within Citrix (Presentation Server 4.0) attempts to print to a local printer (attached via USB to the local computer) the job comes up in the server printer…
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Canon IR Advanced C2020 Won't Print From a Mac

I’m having an issue with a Canon IR Advanced C2020 on the Mac side. We have the printer connected to the network and printing from Windows machines using the UFRII driver but I can’t seem to get any Macs printing to it. A quick rundown of relevant…
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Mass change of default printer settings

On our Server 2008 R2 Print server we have ~30 HP Printers (Some CM3530s, M4345s and CP3525s) and I have been asked to convert all the print double sided and, for the colour printers, greyscale. Is there a powershell script or cmd-line trickery or…
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Why can't I print from Windows on CUPS from a single application?

I've set up a Fedora 10 server and I want to print to an attached printer from three Windows Vista and two XP workstations. After much manual reading I got this situation: All workstations can print One workstation can print from all but one…
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Print windows print jobs in order of submission

Does anyone know of any setting or third party software which forces print jobs to be printed in the order they are submitted?
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Switching local DNS servers disrupts printer

I have two DNS servers in my office, Gob and Tobias. They are both running Ubuntu and BIND. Their BIND config files are identical. We've been using Gob for the last month or so. When we switched to Tobias for the first time today, everything kept…
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windows printer spool gets stuck with file at 64kb from linux and mac

Hi I have two printers one on a file server with windows 2003, and other with windows XP. The thing is that when i try to print from my machine, my file stays in queue for ever, it says 64kb out of whatever the file i send. I have seen similar…
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Printing on a local printer from SSH remote session

I have the following problem. My normal work files are on a remote machine that I can SSH to. I want to be able to print from remote machine on a local printer without having to print to a file, and then scp file to the local machine. What I need is…
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Creating a network printer via Powershell

I'm trying to create network printers using a Powershell script. The script below creates the port without any issues, but will not create the queue. Can you anyone confirm if this script works on Windows Server 2008? (Note, you need to have the…
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DELL 3115cn recalibrates after first page of any job!

We have a DELL 3115cn in the office here and it drives us nuts that after the first page of EVERY job it "CALIBRATING..." before finishing the job. Is there a setting or a firmware update to fix this? Dell support sucks.
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Rewind print job under Windows Server 2008

We are in the transition from Novell NetWare to Windows server 2008. In case of the printer server we print jobs thousands of pages long. NetWare printer manager has a handy function which allows to rewind a print job to a specified page. In case of…
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Whats the best way to make your printer available trough out the VPN?

I just set up a box with a couple XEN virtual machines. One of the virtual machines is running Windows Server 2008 and will soon run our openvpn as well. Is there a way to share this (network) printer to all of our computer so we can print stuff…
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