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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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Workstations can't find preinstalled printer drivers on a WS2K8 Printer server

I've got XP and Win 7 workstations that I'm trying to install network printers onto via a WS2k8 print server, but when I try to do so it tells me the server does not have the correct drivers installed. I've loaded x86 and x64 drivers onto the server…
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Dynamic file name for Generic/Text Only printer

I've got an ASCII print job coming from a legacy system that I don't control. Currently it's aimed at a regular printer. I'd like to be able to catch the job with the Generic/Text Only driver and send it to a file location for import. I can set up a…
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How can I set up Nagios to Monitor a Canon iR 3035?

I've been googling for how to set up printer monitoring - especially for Canon printers. This is because I have a Canon iR 3035 that I want to monitor for toner problems, paper jams, and paper outages. I found a few references to config settings…
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Advantages of running print services on Server 2008 R2?

Our existing print server for our 8 printers is a Win 2003 server that is slowly being decommissioned. We want to move print services off this server but we want to move them to the right place. I don't want to make the domain controller a print…
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Experience with Windows Server 2008 R2 Print Management for large quantities of printers

I have to manage around one hundred printers and I'm looking for ways to centralize all the printers in one printer server. I have been looking into Windows Server 2008 R2 Printer Management service. Do you have any experience with this service? Do…
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can i push out print driver exe's like I would a software msi via group policy?

i just want to make sure there are no caveats with installing print drivers via group policy. also, if this is just a bad idea and a better idea exists let me know. thanks!
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Connect to cups printer service from windows server 2008

From windows server 2003 I can easily add a cups printer service from another host: I tried the same on a windows server 2008 machine, but I did not succeed to add this kind of http printer addresses there, although the address is reachable in the…
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Printing from Android/IOS phone in the enterprise?

Simple question, possibly complicated answer. What has been your solution for users wanting to print from their Android/iOS devices? Print email attachments, etc directly from the phone to your enterprise class printer? The mobile device would be on…
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Not enough storage is available to process this command

I've got a number of users who are complaining that IE8 gives the error Not enough storage is available to process this command when printing very large documents (100's of pages). I found a number of articles that talk about the IRPStackSize being…
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Printer irregularly producing garbage output

Every now and then instead of getting the proper output we get numerous pages, mostly with just a single line, of output which appears to be the raw PCL. My theory is that this happens when the first byte or two of the document is somehow not…
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Best practices for deploying printers in a Windows network?

I have network enabled printers and I'm wondering what the best way is to deploy 'em I can deploy them using GPOs that map the TCP port with the printer's IP address (how I'm doing it now) I could deploy them using Print and Document Services and…
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Windows Vista Default Printer Changes When Using Remote Desktop

I've recently discovered on the Vista boxes in my office that if a user logs in from outside the network using Remote Desktop to their office PC the default printer changes. That change of default printer is really annoying when they come back to…
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How do I discover locally installed printers on all computers

I need to create a list of computers on the network that will also tell me what printers are installed on each machine. I would then need to further filter only those that are Local drivers, and further filter to locally attached printers (either…
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Can Active Directory do Weird Things to Printers?

Here's kind of a parallel question to this one about my printer server saga... Is it possible that AD can be corrupted or have something odd going on that affects printer configurations on these systems? The initial reason we needed to look at…
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Jobs stuck in Print Queue on print server

I have a Server 2003 machine acting as a print server for about 20 printers. There is 1 printer which we are having issues with and it has 104 documents in its queue. I have attempted the "Cancel All Documents" and tried to manually cancel…
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