Questions tagged [printing]

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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Configuring cups to accept multiple jobs from Mac end users

I have a CUPS server up and running with a print release station working fine. I'm not just trying to fine tune it. Right now my mac end users have their print jobs stack up in their local queue, and they can release them one at a time from the…
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Scan through USB connected printer on Print Server

I have two printers, a Lexmark laser printer, and a Canon colour printer/scanner. They are both hooked up via USB to my Print Server. They are set up in Print Management and shared as \\PS1\Lexmark and \\PS1\Canon. When the client computers use the…
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How to better track and debug what happens with files stuck in the print spooler?

I have a print server running Windows Server 2012 which is shared in a domain and is used by terminal services clients. The domain network spans between countries using tunnels and in some situations the print server and the printers are not in the…
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Intermec Label Printer Stops after 26 Labels

There was once a computer that sent print jobs to an intermec label printer. For some reason after only a few labels the printer would stop printing. So Intermec was contacted and they changed some print configuration setting and everything was…
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Group Policy Preferences Printers: Server 2008R2 Error 0x80070bc4 does not set default printer after a printer has been created

Alright. After calling upon the almighty Google I have been unable to find a good solutions to this problem along with many other users. So I am turning to Server Fault for some support here. I am in the process of moving my users off of Quest's…
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Upgrade to Wheezy - CUPS printing to lpd printers is 6x slower

We have Debian Squeeze 32-bit servers that print PDFs to Xerox DocuColor printers. The PDFs are processed in about six seconds. We are in the process of upgrading our servers to Wheezy 64-bit. We can print documents, but the same documents take…
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How do i enforce duplex printing on Server 2012

Is it possible to enforce duplex printing by default for every users on AD. Unless the user deliberately choose to print single sided, all print jobs should be duplex (double-sided). Is it possible to do this? Thanks.
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Missing a Generic/Text Only printer driver?

I have a program that needs a printer with the Generic/Text Only driver to print shipping documents.Some users in China (who use Windows XP and Windows 7) don't have the option to select this driver when installing a printer. The Generic/Text Only…
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Printing on Windows 8 64-Bit through Windows Server 2008 (32 Bit) RemoteApp

We have a network where our server is running on Windows Server 2008 (32 Bit) and a client computer is running on Windows 8.1 (64 bit) with a local printer attached to the client. The printer is an HP P1006. The remote app works well but when…
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windows overwrites cups drivers

I'm currently trying to enforce grayscale printing at the company I work at. I have added the printer (sharp mx2600n) to the cups server using the ppd file. on the web interface i set the color mode to black & white and i have disabled the color…
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printing from x86 terminal server to a x64 machine

I have a Windows Server 2008 x86 Application server. Upgrading is not an option at this point. I have clients connecting to the remote application and trying to print. The x86 users have no issue but the x64 customers cannot see the printers listed…
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Printing RAW jobs from AIX 5.3 to Windows Server 2008 R2

We're trying to move a program from a legacy Windows 2003 print server over to a Windows 2008 R2 one. The program takes output sent from an AIX server and then processes it. It gets the data by way of a remote print queue on the AIX box. Now for…
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Printer MAC Addresses

I have three printers that I have to put on our internal network using the printers' internal NICs. They are all currently attached to Windows XP machines and shared via the OS. So I need to submit details to the networking folks to get IP…
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Printer lpd daemon refuses print job if a command's new-line sent separately -- bug?

I'm encountering some printer LPD daemons which work fine if the new-line is sent in the same packet as the command, but break if the new-line is sent in a separate packet. Is that a bug in these particular daemons? The LPD protocol is driven by…
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I'm looking at sharing a printer over the internet, what are the implications?

Is it safe to NAT to the TCP/IP printer on the appropriate port in the router? Will I get unwanted documents from hackers or is this not a huge problem?
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