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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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Color profiles for large network printer

We're planning to buy a large color networked laser printer / photocopier / scanner device, something around the $10,000USD range. This, as standard, understands PCL (version 5e, I think). How do I ensure we get decent color reproduction from this…
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How to prevent slow printer performance when AD is not available

When I take a domain based computer (Windows XP) and plug it into a network that doesn't have access to the AD, the first time I select a local printer (printing directly to printer) on the current network it takes a good 20-30 seconds before I can…
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Allowing XP Home Clients To Access Active Directory Printers

My school's network is based on Active Directory on Windows Server 2003 servers. Most of the computers in the school are members of the domain. However, we also acquired a passel of netbooks that are running Windows XP Home (as netbooks tend to),…
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How to set up email printer driver under IPP?

We're enhancing our software to be able to print to an IPP-based printer (I'm running CUPS on a RedHat-based Linux distro). The QA person is remote, though, and because of firewalls and proxy servers we cannot configure the IPP-server to use a…
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Printers Sharing Ubuntu Server

I need to share 3 USB printers on a network, I installed a Raspberry Pi4 with Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS with CUPS e smb services configured. From windows 10 I'm able to access \ip of the server and I see all the printers. The issue is when I try to…
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Automatically setting proxy and default printer upon OpenVPN connect

How can I update WinXP clients' web proxy and default printer settings after a successful OpenVPN connect and VPN'd DHCP negotiation? (And how can I remove those settings upon VPN disconnect?) I'm sure this is a solved problem -- it's not…
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Unable to deploy printers via GPO User Configuration after Windows update KB5005033 got installed ("Do you trust this printer?" issue)

Recent (2021-08-10) KB5005033 Windows update actually brings this issue back to life by forcing admins only to install printer drivers (and thus, not allowing printer distribution via User Configuration GPO), quote: ...Updates the default…
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How to make printers installed by GPO/GPP have server-side settings?

I have a Windows Server 2019 domain controller which has some network printers installed using TCP/IP Port 9100 and publishes all of those printers as shares. The important thing to note is that while it's only 3 different physical printers, those 3…
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AuthInfoRequired cups overwrites

My problem is basically identical to the following: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61826 Put simply, I have a machine in ubuntu trying to connect to another ubuntu machine via a network in order to use the printer attached. There is…
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is it possible to append the filename to the job-id of all jobs submitted to a CUPS printer?

as the title suggests, I want to append the filenames of files I print to the actual job-ID in CUPS. so if for instance i ran: lp some-file.pdf the job-ID would be: d00001-001somefile.pdf The reason I want to do this is that the printer interacts…
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How to automatically print from Windows server to local printer

I have a Windows desktop app that runs in EC2 and works perfectly for user-related things (using the app through remote desktop), including printing to local printers. However, the software has a feature that automatically prints PDFs for incoming…
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CUPS lp freezes when a printer is offline

I'm running CUPS 2.2.10 (Raspberry Pi). I have two Zebra label printers connected to USB ports. Each is configured in CUPS. They print fine with no issues unless one printer is turned off. Then if a job is sent to that printer, CUPS freezes and…
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Locked Print Settings Preservation When Updating Driver

I have a set of Ricoh printers on a print server. When I want to deploy a new version of the driver, it erases the printing preferences of all users mapped to the queue share. Example, if someone uses locked printing and sets a pin with username as…
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CUPS printing very intricate PDF files

One source of PDFs that we need to print periodically, are specifications. The PDFs have very intricate backgrounds, and the rendering is slow. But the problem is that the document ends up being 80 to 100 MB and sometimes larger. I have found…
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Can't get Zebra ZM600 on my network

I have a new-to-me zebra ZM600 thermal printer that has been reset to factory defaults. I can't get it to pick up a DHCP address when plugged in to wired network, nor does it pick up an address when it's set to wireless. I'm able to plug the printer…
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