Default printer, in RDS W2012 roaming profile, disappear sometimes

Hello!
We have a problem with the defaults printers in my roaming profiles. We have an AD W2012 and my domain users can connect to a RDS farm in W2012 too. Obviously the roaming profile works fine. In other W2012 server, I have a printServer, with all the company
printers installed. The user only must to add any printer listed in the directory to his session, because the server already have the drivers installed correctly.
The problem starts when during the day, in any moment, the user lost the default printer, he is printing 3 or 4 followed documents, and can lost 1, a message appear: The user XXX don't have any default printer in his profile!! This occurs in every moment,
but not always. Others users can print during all the day without any error, but at the next day they can get the error other time.
We dont' see any error, about this in the event viewer.
Thanks.

Hi Pedro,
Would you please let me confirm whether this issue occurred after anything changed (install any third-party
application or update)? Or did this issue occurred suddenly?
à
he is printing 3 or 4 followed documents, and can lost 1, a message appear: The user XXX don't have any default printer in his profile
It’s an odd issue. Just check if have new print drivers which need to be installed.
If has any detail, please feel free to let me know.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

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