Print driver corruption

Hi,
We have a Windows 2008 R2 print server and Windows 7 (x86 and 64) clients connecting to it. Randomly the print drivers on the client get corrupted. It is mostly for Xerox machines (I think because they are the bigger printers, used by a lot more people),
but it does happen on other printers as well. We applied the 3001232 fix with out any luck. I have read on other threads that disabling CSR might work, but it will tax our server too much and we want to try other things before doing this. Is there something
else that worked for any of you? And if nothing else worked, did disabling CSR give 100% result? at least close to 95% positive result in ending the driver corruption?
Thank you and have a great day,
Sravani

Hi Sravani,
-->Randomly the print drivers on the client get corrupted.
Please check if need to update the print drivers. Meanwhile. please refer to following KB and check if can help you.
Printing fails when you use a shared printer in Windows 7
In addition, please enable Print Driver Isolation and monitor the result.
Print Driver Isolation feature allows some of the print driver components to be executed in a process (or processes) separate from the print spooler. By doing this, any problems associated with faulty drivers are isolated from the print spooler service
and will not cause it to fail. For more details, please refer to following article.
Windows 7 / Windows Server 2008 R2: Print Driver Isolation
If any update, please feel free to let me know.
Best regards,
Justin Gu
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