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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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Users cannot see printers installed ona machine. Admins can?

We have deployed printers through a gpo to the machines. If i log in as a administrator then these are viewable but if i log in as a non admin user they disappear. Have we missed something out? Many thanks
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Terminal Server: no default printer

I have a customer with 3 2008 R2 Standard terminal servers in 1 TSfarm. All clients are XP/Vista/7 Pro and login with a generic account automatically at startup. After startup the latest mstsc client is started and asks for a login. The mstsc client…
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How to limit printer settings for networked CUPS printer?

We have a CUPS based color laser printer. Our colleagues often tweak their print settings, resulting in non optimal configurations. E.g. they change the color reproduction so that even black and white text will be printed in full CMYK. This can be…
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Delegate delete print queue permissions

I want to be able to give a group of people permission to delete all the jobs in a print queue (specifically teachers deleting pupils print jobs) Up until now we've just made them members of the "print operators" group, but that is not ideal and it…
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Print Spooler keeps crashing on Server 2003 R2

my Windows 2003 R2 print server spooler service keeps crashing. upon startup I'll get an error message stating "Unhandled Win32 exception occurred in spoolsv.exe". no matter how many times i try to start the print spooler service manually, it'll…
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Force No Default Printer, OR Require Confirmation Prior to Printing

We regularly have issues with people accidentally printing to the wrong printer. Unfortunately, I cannot remove these printers as they are printers they need to print to. However, I want to try to make them think before they print. I would like to…
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Domain Controller, Group Policy and Network Printers

I am in the process of re-configuring our Windows Domain (Server 2008R2) and want to iron out anything that caused trouble the first time I set them up. We have two network connected printers with static IP addresses, currently the workstations are…
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Allowing machines other than localhost access to CUPS?

In relation to this question on printing, I have found that I cannot administer the CUPS instance from a different machine. Is it possible that CUPS is configured to accept jobs only from the local machine, also? Is there a way to configure CUPS…
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Any link between deploying printers with group policy and sharing printer setting?

Greets, Struggling a bit with deploying HP printers on a windows network using windows 2003R2 servers, Active Directory, and Windows XP Pro clients. The printers are all connected to the network using internal jetdirect cards; there are no printers…
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Point to print restrictions in Server2008 NOT R2

I am having loads of problems with printers due to the point and print restrictions in Windows 7 being enabled. I've had this problem before and the solution last time was simply to disable the point to print restrictions. Unfortunately the server I…
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Share a local printer in a remote session under Linux

Do you know of an opensource equivalent of TSE under linux which can manage local printers?
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NT 4 era peripherals and Win 7 with XP Mode

I have a legacy label printer from the NT4 days that I need to get working on our newly imaged Win7 systems. Is it possible to use XP mode to host the driver for the printer, and share that as a networked printer to the host system, thus bypassing…
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Windows Terminal Services 2003 Remote Printer Printing One Blank Page

We've got a remote user on Windows XP with an HP Deskjet 6122 printer that is having some printing issues. Weird thing is that the user was able to print before but now all of a sudden cannot. There have been no changes or updates to the…
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How do I have a roving network printer across multiple lans in n site?

I've got to do user training at a large site (40+ location's/ 80 Sessions) that requires demonstrating printing to a (single) network printer. How do I have a roving network printer across multiple LANs in an site? The printer gets allocated (via…
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Battery backup for Workstation & Printer

I have been tasked with finding a price for a battery backup solution for our printers. Each printer is listed at 240v 24a <5.5kW and each workstation is using a 500w power supply. We are probably going to add more batteries to our existing UPS to…
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