Printers are notorious for causing headaches and frustration, and this was certainly the case for me as I managed a single Windows server with 167 networked printers. It seemed like every so often, print jobs would get stuck and I would have to manually intervene by stopping the print spooler service, cleaning out the print […]
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Today was one of those days, I migrated our old print server (2012 R2) to Server 2022 and it went way to smoothly for printers. Sure enough a day later we get calls the canon ID management won’t verify. Could not verify the Department ID and PIN specified in Department ID Mgmt. Printing will be
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Having a few Richos and renewing our contracts results in new malfunction printers. Which also means setting back up your network settings, address books and everything else. Below is on crucial setting for us and that is setting the default send settings to PDF instead of TIFF. I don’t believe this can be done though the
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Recently added a new printer to our local printserver which hosts over 100 network shared printers. Of course nothing goes smoothly. Went to HP website and downloaded the universal print driver (UPD) for Server 2008 R2 as that’s the operating system we are running. So figured hey if its a server driver I’m sure they
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We have a mixed environment of XP and Windows 7. Of course this doesn’t make things any easier trying to support both operating systems. Below I’ll outline how we deployed our printers. Both our AD and Print server are Server 2008 R2 Enterprise. If you need to just deploy for 1 of the operating systems skip to
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Today I learned something interesting while updating/migrating printers from our old server (Server 2003) to our new print server ( Server 2008 R2). When HP says Universal Print Driver they mean it! In our district we have about 10-15 Dell Laser 1710/1720 printers. I was having a really tough time finding a driver that supported
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