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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CUPS Print Server; Multiple Destinations

We have about 15 printers in our office, each one a different make or model, and requiring a different driver, with differing locations as well, ranging from peoples desks to breakrooms. Due to this, many of the computers only have access to a hand…
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How can I manage remote site printers?

Please bear with me, my server and networking knowledge is not amazing. The company that I work for has a central 'Head Office'. This is where our server room is located. We have a bunch of Windows severs providing services such as AD, Group Policy,…
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Client computers (W7) asking update PDFCreator printer drivers (2008R2)

For over 18 months it has been working. Suddenly, without any updates (server is not connected to the Internet) and nothing is being pushed to it, all client computers (over 100 of them) are asking to update printer drivers. Is there any known cause…
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Linux printing from Windows stopped working after upgrade to Windows 7: "Unknown error condition in stat: Function not implemented"

my name is Justin and i am not a linux guy I do not know much about it only windows. We're a company and we're having troubles with printing and sharing from linux to Windows 7. I can connect to linux from windows 7 pc though. What we have is…
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Can't clear que for printer on the network

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, so forgive me if I am out of line. I'm having some printer problems with our server. When I look at the printer connected to our network, I see a whole bunch of documents in the queue. Usually…
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How can i print to an alternate LPD port from Windows Server 2012?

I have a Mac setup using LPD to a remote printer/port and it works great. I'm trying to add the same printer on a Windows server and it fails. I've tried standard TCP/IP port specifying the IP as 9.3.3.3:1234 and also LPR Port. With Standard TCP…
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Managing print jobs - Output jobs from different users to different trays

Is there a way from any printer vendor, or perhaps with Windows Print Spooling to send print jobs from different users to output on a different tray? For example, slipping smaller jobs in between larger jobs and popping them out on tray 2 while the…
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Locked Print settings disapper on workstations

we have a RICOH MFD and its queue ison a print servers ; few people accesing it via windows 7 workstations , have issues. They set the Locked print preference in Print Preferences -> one click print preset ; but those locked print settings disappear…
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Print documents to PDF files via command line in Wine

I have a task to use Wine on Linux distributive for work with MS Office files doc[x] / xls[x] / ppt[x] and pdf via virtual printer. Output formats I need are png or jpg. This is for converter of documents and presentations. I can convert a ps file…
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How to turn off notifications about toner low

Some of our users are complaining about the fact that the receive a notification (system tray icon of the print queue) about consumable being low into the printer they are printing to. Even if it does not prevent them from printing (as long as they…
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How to allow workstations to see printer fonts on shared printer?

I recently upgraded a small company's computers. The new computers did not have parallel port cards so I bought a few parallel to USB adapters. These work fine on the local workstation, but if I then share the workstation and another workstation…
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How to make cups to automatically redirect prints that have more than 10 pages to specific printer

I have 2 printers on my cups server. I want that when the print has more than 10 pages, it would be redirected to a specific printer. How can I do that?
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Manage redirected print queues from RD users on Server 2008 as Administrator

How can I view the all the print queues on a 2008 server, even redirected ones created by remote desktop users? When I log into a Server 2008 Server as Administrator, and I view the Printers folder (or use the Print Management tool) I only see my…
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PCL XL error Warning: IllegalMediaSource

While printing to a network shared printer, some documents printed from Windows XP machines cause an additional page to be printed with the following text PCL XL error Warning: IllegalMediaSource However, when printing on Windows 7…
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Spoof IPP response in firewall?

How I do to spoof a IPP "Unauthorized" response? Have read the IPP specification documents but cannot find exactly how a IPP response should look like. Any examples? Basically, I have a IPP printer with a firewall in-between, that authenticates…