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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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Which part of my OS is bringing up this OpenCurPrinter dialog?

One of our Enterprisey systems has a long-running batch process that sometimes get interrupted by the following popup dialog: OpenCurPrinter: printer: \\FS3\HP30351st, port: Ne00:, drive: winspool Error initializing the printer (where…
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Speed up RDS printing

We've recently moved our clients from a Server 2003 terminal server using ThinPrint .print to Windows Server 2008 R2 RDS via a RDS Gateway using Easy Print. We've got some clients in Indonesia on crappy ISDN links who are saying that printing is now…
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VPN-RDP printjob fails after first page

Environment: WS 2008 R2 Terminalserver (we have 3 of them). Client VPNs into Company Network and establishes a RDP-connection to one of the TS (load balancing). Printer is a HP LaserJet 1200 and it's plugged in via USB at the client-machine (Win 7…
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printing directly to (not from) php

Would it be possible to create a php script on a local server that could handle printing? I'm not sure it's possible, but am curious.... I'm thinking... create a local printer, use custom port TCP/IP port that points to a PHP script that…
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Setup Printers Based Upon AD Group Membership

I am trying to create a login script for Active Directory that will be used for installing printers on client computers. I have a basic script that we are using now, listed below, that installs a series of printers to the local machine from our…
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What is the default sort order in the Find Printers dialog?

Within the Find Printers dialog, if a user clicks the Find Now button, all available printers on the network are shown. The printers seem to appear in a somewhat random order though where I'd expect them to be sorted by name (or something) by…
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Print Server Forgetting Printers

I have a Windows Server 2008 R2 server setup with the print and document services role installed. From here, this machine is domain attached to a mixed domain environment that has some Windows Server 2003 domain controllers and some Windows Server…
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How to capture postscript output via TCP/IP? (for testing purposes)

We have a propriety system that talks to various printers across multiple sites via TCP/IP. The system only outputs Postscript, which obviously sends via TCP/IP. I'm really wondering is there any kind of software that I could install my PC which I…
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Need help with local network printing while using VPN on Ubuntu 10.10 desktop

I can print to my HP printer via the LAN when I'm not connected to the VPN. When connected to the VPN, printing fails. OpenVPN 2.1.0 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH] [PF_INET6] [eurephia] built on Jul 12 2010 I can ping the…
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Install printer drives on multiple VDI's

I need to install one printer driver on multiple VDI's so that the local printer will be redirected (if I don't install the printer drivers, it does not redirect properly). On one of the VDI's I have via a RDP session added a local printer,…
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Updating the drivers for hundreds of printers at one in 2008

I would like to know if there is a script or program that can update a bunch of printers at one time to a specific driver. We have about 500 printers in our environment and we need some way to change them all to Universal drivers. Something like…
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Win 2003 Terminal Server Keeps Crashing

Welcome to my morning emergency: System is Windows 2003 SP2, operating as a terminal server. There are several printers shared from this system, and users connecting also map their locally mapped printers in their TS session. Intermittently, and…
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adding remote ssh printer as local printer

I have SSH access to a remote host (FreeBSD) that has a printer set up. I do not have root access on that host or any other special user rights. Now I want to print directly from my laptop on that printer (Ubuntu 10.10). The problem is that I don't…
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How do I find all network clients (WinXp) that have local printers connected?

I have about 300 workstations and I want to know which of those computers have local printers connected to them. Not necessary shared local printers, and get a list of the computers and possibly the model of the printer. Any ideas?
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local printer in remote desktop

I have connected my local computer in remote desktop connection utility. The client machine I am using is windows XP sp3 with .NET 3.5sp1 . I am connecting to windows 2003 server. However when I go to printer session in 2008 I could not see my local…
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