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Citrix Printing

The TS team for Windows Server 2008  has posted some rather interesting information about the new Easy Print feature that will be part of Longhorn

Introducing Terminal Services Easy Print: Part 1

Historically, printing redirection has been difficult for Terminal Services (TS) customers. To successfully redirect a given user's client printer to the terminal server, the proper drivers needed to be installed on both the TS client machine and TS server machine. Customers have discovered  that the requirement of having the TS server host a matching printer driver can be problematic for a number of reasons (e.g. inability  to find  matching drivers, or the drivers the printer vendor supplied just don't work with TS). Simply put, we wanted to solve these issues and reduce administrator headaches. The solution is TS Easy Print: a "driver-less" solution for printer redirection over a TS session.

Part 2

 

 

Project Compatibility 3.0
free utility from Dabcc.com

Terminal Server Printing: Design and Configuration

Sample wtsuprn.inf

HP Printer Compatibility list

LaserJets and Terminal Server

defprint.zip
set default printer utility

Printingsupport
Great site for printing in TSE and Citrix and home of the compatabily database:

JUST A SAMPLE:

HP Deskjets Hp and Citrix Total overview (MS Excel format) basic mappinglist (win2k only) basic mappinglist (tse only)
HP Officejets Hp and Citrix Total overview  basic mappinglist (win2k only) basic mappinglist (tse only)
HP (color) Laserjets Hp and Citrix Total overview (MS Excel format) basic mappinglist (win2k only) basic mappinglist (tse only)
Epson. Epson and CItrix Total overview basic mappinglist (win2k only) basic mappinglist (tse only)
Lexmark Lexmark and Citrix Total overview basic mappinglist (win2k only) basic mappinglist (tse only)
Canon Canon and Citrix Total overview basic mappinglist (win2k only) basic mappinglist (tse only)

Terminal Server + Citrix

Documentation and Best Practice Guides

Driver issues

  • 243942 - Terminal Services Printer Redirection Not Signaled on Change to Server-Side Device Settings Tab
  • 328020 - Redirected Printing Through a Terminal Services Session May Not Work with Windows 2000 SP3 - post-SP3 hotfix
  • 275495 - Printer Redirection or Upgrade May Not Work Because of Signed Ntprint.inf File
  • CTX626451 - Sample WTSUPRN.INF File for Use in Autocreation
  • 239088 - Windows 2000 Terminal Services Server Logs Events 1111, 1105, and 1106
  • 276532 - Windows 2000 Terminal Server Reports Event ID 1103 in the System Event Log
  • Event 1103 - An internal communication error occurred. Redirected printing will no longer function
  • 214593 - Windows Terminal Server with Metaframe ICA Client Cannot Autocreate Some Printers - NT 4.0 TSE
  • 317780 - Print Jobs That Are Sent to Terminal Services Redirected Printers May Print on Another Client's Printer
  • 313733 - Spooled Files May Be Printed in an Incorrect Terminal Services Session - fixed in SP3
  • 253922 - Users' Automatically Created Printers Visible to Other Users - fixed in SP4
  • 318939 - Session IDs Are Appended in the Name of Redirected Printers
  • 259976 - Obtaining Additional Printer Drivers to Use with Windows 2000
  • 302361 - Printers That Use Ports That Do Not Begin With COM, LPT, or USB Are Not Redirected in a Remote Desktop or Terminal Services Session
  • 822834 - Spooler Failure Causes High CPU Usage in the Winlogon.exe and Spoolsv.exe Processes on a Windows 2000 Terminal Server - pre-SP5 hotfix

3th party printer driver information and utilities

Helpful Whitepapers

  Simplify Printing NEW! Version 3!

Simplify Printing is powered by the 3rd generation of triCerat ScrewDrivers technology, the world's first self-configuring printing system. Simplify Printing v3 revolutionizes the Server-Based Computing Printing paradigm and terminates the need for printer driver management. You will never need to install another printer driver on the server again. Simplify Printing v3 provides the only true Universal Printing Solution for Terminal Services. It works equally well with or without Metaframe. Unlike other printing solutions that emulate a lowest common denominator printer driver and are simply a backup for autocreation failures, Simplify Printing v3 detects the user's printer attributes and dynamically creates a fully-featured virtual printer.
 
ThinPrint

Today construction of server based environments with established Citrix or Microsoft Terminal Services software platforms offers a very inexpensive and efficient alternative to decentralized IT structures. With what are now very mature transmission protocols like ICA or RDP as a basis, an entire office network, for example, can easily and flexibly be equipped with their necessary applications over even very thin connections to central server farms.

Best Practice Printing Guide
01.04.2003

 

ICA Java Client Drive and Printer Mapping

 

Printing Architecture Solution

 

Publishing Print Manager on a Win 2000 TS System on MF1.8

 


 

   

 
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