Printer drivers, server 2012 R2

I believe that is because you are using V4 drivers.
Does it not work correctly?

We just migrated to 2012 R2 this weekend. I setup printers on the server with correct drivers. However, when I install them on a workstation I am getting the "microsoft enhanced point and print driver" instead of the PCL 6 driver I installed??
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How to disable easy print in server 2012 r2

how to disable easy print in server 2012 r2

Hi,
To disable RD Easy Print on server 2012 r2, we need to disable the policy setting “Use Remote Desktop Easy Print printer driver first” under following path.
Computer Configuration\Administrative templates\Windows Components\Remote Desktop Services\Remote Desktop Session Host\Printer Redirection
Please check below article for checking RD Easy print.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rds/archive/2009/09/28/using-remote-desktop-easy-print-in-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2.aspx
Hope it helps!
Thanks.
Dharmesh Solanki
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Share IPP printer in server 2012

Hello,
I want to set up a server 2012 print server to share cups printers. These cups printers are available as IPP printer.
I can add an IPP printer all right on the server, but I don't have the option to share that printer.
It simply tells me "Sharing is not suported for this type of printer"
What am I doing wrong?
Thanks!

Hi,
Print Servers that have IPP enabled will automatically make a shared printer available through the relevant
Point and Print sharing mechanism, as well as IPP.
Print servers will publish a webpage that lists available IPP shares, and Windows clients connecting to those shares can download available v3 drivers directly from the print server. For more details, please refer to following article.
Printer Sharing Technical Details
Please check if you can add the CUPS printer to the client computer via Add Printer wizard.
Adding a Linux CUPS
Printer to Windows 8
Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft
does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
If anything I misunderstand or update, please don’t hesitate to let me know.
Hope this helps.
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Printers added and shared without access to printer properties - Server 2012

On a Server 2012 domain controller, without the Print Management role installed, I have added a network printer through ‘Control Panel’ > ’Devices and Printers’, shared it through group policy, and the domain
member computers are able to print to the shared printer. But the printer never showed up in ‘Devices and Printers’ folder on the server.
The problem comes in since there is no way to edit the settings of the printer. The print queue for the printer does show up in Device Manager. I right-click the printer and select ‘Properties’, open the ‘Settings’ tab, and follow the link that
states, “Please go to the Devices and Printers folder to manage your printer”.
But this just opens up the ‘Devices and Printers’ folder which, does show/contain my printers.
If you are asking why the Print Management role is not used, It is because this system is self-contained and the most minimal features are installed on all computers for security compliance reasons. Therefore we typically just install the printers
on the domain controllers (via Devices and Printers) and then share them via Group Policy to the small number of workstations on the segregated network.
Did the ability to bypass installation of a Print Management role, and still edit printer settings, change for Server 2012? (We were able to do this with Server 2008R2. However, I can’t find any specific Microsoft documentation describing the change.)
So to try to fix this issue on the affected system (from my explanation above), I installed the Print Management role but the printers I created in ‘Control Panel’
don’t show up in Print Management. I still have no way to access the printer settings. Do I have to reinstall the printers? How do I remove the old printers? Do I just remove the ‘Print queues’ from Device Manager?
I tried to replicate my issue on a test system domain controller, built with very similar installation scripts as the affected system above was. I added a printer via ‘Control Panel’ > ‘Devices and Printers’, shared them, and they do not show up. However,
when I then install the Print Management role, the printers I created in ‘Control Panel’
now show up in Print Management. This is different than my affected system above.
If anyone could provide any insight on why this is happening it would be much appreciated!
Thanks,
Dan

Most likely this is a security setting on the print shares. When you open Devices and Printers, the security token for BUILTIN accounts is not passed to the Explorer process so launching this User Interface as administrator does not contain the ADMIN security
token. If you have removed the Everyone group from the printer security, then the printer can disappear in this UI. For printer admin tasks you should use the tools provided by the print team Printmanagement.msc.
Adding the Print Role opens the spooler RPC endpoint ( which you can also do by sharing a printer ) and adds the tools.
Can you just add the tools without installing the Role?
dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:Printing-AdminTools-collection
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DVD drive not recognised after initial install of software and drivers - Server 2012 R2

Hi
I have a SATA DVDRW drive that isnt being recognised by windows server
It is recognised in bios, and was initially recognised by windows, until installing an AV on the server.
Looking under device manager, it can still be seen, but only as a hidden device (greyed out).
Both the C: drive and the DVD drive are set in IDE mode in the bios (believe that is just meaning they are sandalone, rather than RAID mode)
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J
Hi guys - thanks for the responses.....
we just tried something simple - swapping the OS drive and the DVD drive over (DVD was in sata 5, OS in sata 6 - now the other way round)
This seems to have worked, so we are going to keep it that way round
Seems Silly yet simple
Thanks again

hi, so you say that the drive will work in another SATA port is there the potential that the SATA port you are currently using has a fault? does it work with any other hardware?
another option is a classic windows fault regarding the corrupt registry filters that would make a CD\DVD drive disappear in explorer, however i am not sure if this problem afflicts sever 2012. you could give it a go to see if it resolves the issue
Press the Windows logo key + R to open the Run dialog box.
Type regedit in the Run dialog box, then press Enter. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for a confirmation, type
the password, or click Allow
In the navigation pane, locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
In the right pane, click UpperFilters.
Note You may also see an UpperFilters.bak registry entry. You do not have to remove that entry. Click UpperFilters only. If you do not see the UpperFilters registry entry, you still might have to remove the LowerFilters
registry entry. To do this, go to step 7.
On the Edit menu, click Delete.
When you are prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes.
In the right pane, click LowerFilters.
Note If you do not see the LowerFilters registry entry, go to the next resolution.
On the Edit menu, click Delete.
When you are prompted to confirm the deletion, click Yes.
Exit Registry Editor.
Restart the computer.

32bit Printer Drivers on 2012 64bit Server

Quick synopsis:
64 bit Windows 2012 server setup completed.
Most of our users are 32 bit Windows XP.
I've found many of the forum posts helpful, and I've started making sure that the drivers being used are Type 3 (by installing the 32 bit driver and pointing to that one).
But what happens when the driver doesn't show up?
Let me explain. I've added the required driver (32 bit) to the driver section of the Print Management Window.
I then chose to re-add a printer I had previously removed (in order to redirect it to get Type 3). When I get to the "Use an exisiting printer driver on the computer" on the "Network Printer Installation Wizard" The driver I added, doesn't
show up.
Not sure what to do now.
Help.
thanks

So, this problem is still going.
I've tested this out on a Windows XP machine. And obviously, not all the drivers are working. The ones that DO work, are the printers with Type 3 - User Mode.
When downloading a new driver (mostly ALL Hp Laserjets), should I even BE downloading a 32 bit xp driver? or only the 2012 drivers? Are 32 bit drivers included on that? I know that's probably more of a HP question. But how am I to switch these drivers over
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Intermittent RDP Printing - Windows server 2012 R2

On a server windows 2012
R2 with any update installed, remote users
can't print to redirected printersintermittently.
In the event log, it is an event id
372 with the following description:
Unable to print the document Print Document
owned by #username#on
the printer #printername#on #servername#
(redirected 3). Try to
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Number of bytes printed: 0.
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Hi Roberto,
Thank you for posting in Windows Server Forum.
This error might be caused by one of the following conditions:
- The printer is not reachable on the network
- Windows cannot allocate sufficient memory
- There was invalid or incomplete data received by the print spooler
- A driver upgrade failed
- There is a bad printer device driver
Please check below article for more information.
Event ID 372 — Print Spooler Status (For reference)
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd393167(v=ws.10).aspx
Hope it helps!
Thanks,
Dharmesh

I cannot seem to find the Version 3 print drivers to make XP work from my server 2012 r2 environment. I read that the v3 should fix the XP errors I continue to get, but WHERE do i dowlnoad these? Cant find them anywhere.

Does anyone know where to find V3 drivers rather than v4. I'm having issues with XP working in my server 2012 environment.
Thanks in advance!

the vendor provided version-3 compatible print driver should be used for the device. Check Windows Update and the device manufacturer for a v3 driver.
Best,
Howtodo

Branch Office Direct Print (Server 2012+W8) Discrete Drivers does not function

All of the print drivers support CSR and are unique to the devices (no UPDs used). BODP setting is set to True and "Render Print Jobs on client computers" is checked. "Hold Mismatch documents & Keep printed documents" are not checked.
When I shut down the print spooler on the server, the printers on the W8 clients all go offline. When I print to the W8 print queues, I see them go through the server (paused, then released).
Do I need to check the "Print directly to the printer" setting under advanced on all of the queues on the server as well?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,
I’m glad to hear that you have resolved the issue and thanks for sharing your solution in the forum. This will help others who face the same scenario resolve the issue quickly. If there is
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Windows Server 2012 R2 print issues

We are using terminal server with Windows Server 2012 R2. Our users are using Windows 7 Embedded thin clients with MSTSC RDP 8.0. We are using network printers.
There is problem with printing from Adobe Reader. We are using Adobe Reader 11.0.06. Sometimes users cannot print from Adobe Reader with error message "Printer not found" even though we can print on same printer from other software. This problem can be solved by relogging user, but in our enterprise environment, this is not acceptable solution.
Thanks for your help.

I had the same issue with another Canon UFRII that was not on the network. Canon has some monitor software that attempts to query the device and this threw back Invalid Parameter when the device did not exist. Is your device on the network?
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V3 Printer driver on Windows Server 2012

Hello there.....
I have installed Print services on Windows Server 2012. I have read several forum and found that it is a best practice to install V3 drivers if workstations run on Windows 7.
Our all of workstations have windows 7 so I want to install v3 printer drivers. we have printers of HP and Canon mostly.
So can anyone tell me how can I get V3 drivers of HP Laserjet P4015 for example...
I have installed a driver but found its v4.
Please tell me how can I install V3 driver for HP, Canon printers.....
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You would need to use the V3 drivers that the vendors provide to Windows Update
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Windows 7 64 bit / Server 2012 R2 GUI - Type 4 Print Driver error "Cannot connect to the Printer" 0x00000002

Hello, We have multiple Server 2003 Print server and are working on testing a Server 2012 print server. We have run into an issue where a PRINTER (type 4, normal) works with our Windows 7 32 bit clients, Windows 8.1 64 bit clients and the
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I have been scouring the Google and Bing and have yet to find a satisfactory description that matches this issue. Nor have I found other information that resolve this issue. Like, blaming this on the spooler or DLL fixes or Reg hacks (applied
on the client side).
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deployments for the Windows 7 64 bit clients when we go live but this sort of <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="55af8faf-887d-4ea5-9032-7c14b199df0f" id="db4a1e65-db1b-4c94-bd84-20ffc96288ce">henky</gs>.
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2793718
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HP Officejet Pro 6830 Scanner drivers for Server 2012

Printer: HP Officejet Pro 6830 e-All-in-One Printer
Serial Number: [edited Serial Number by Moderator]
Product Number: E3E02A
Email Address: [edited email by moderator]
Operating System: Windows Server 2012
I have an issue when trying to install the printer and scanner driver on Server 2012. The driver on the website for Server 2012 is 32Bit link below.
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And the drivers that came with the printer give the following error: "This computer does not meet the following system requirement(s): The Operating System of this computer is not supported."
Have phoned HP on the support line all they do is give me a different phone number to phone.
Please someone help.

Hi @Mark-active
Although my area of expertise is with consumer products and software, not commerical products such as servers, I do have something that might be helpful; Setting Up the Printer on Windows Server 2003, 2008, or 2012 for HP Officejet Printers.
If the issue you are experiencing persists, I suggest giving us a call. If you are in Canada or US call 800 474 6836, or you can Contact HP Worldwide.
I hope this helps.
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Windows Server 2012 Standard - HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 Plus printer not working after promoting to Domain Controller / AD Services

An associate and myself installed the built-in drivers for the HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 Plus multi-function (network) printer on a Windows Server 2012 Standard server installation and everything worked fine whenever I want to print anything directly from the
Windows Server machine (there's a reason for this, so please understand that ;) ).
We were able to print without any problems from the Windows Server 2012 machine, using the drivers from Microsoft. Mainly, because HP has not listed any specific support for Windows Server 2012, only Windows Server 2008 R2, however, the drivers that
came with Windows 2012 seem to work very well.
PROBLEM: I later had to promote the Windows Server 2012 to a Domain Controller, and created the Active Directory configurations, even enabled the Print Services. After doing all of that, the HP printer will not print anything. It's like all print
requests directly from the Windows Server go to Nil.
Has anyone encountered a problem like this before? The only thing I can think of is that after perhaps something affected printing directly once we promoted the server to being a DC, and added other features / roles. I even tried installing the
HP drivers for Windows Server 2008 R2, and the results are still the same...nothing prints. Trust me, the printer is set as the Default Printer and even when choosing to print, we make sure the HP OfficeJet Pro is selected, and is on, as other Windows
Client PC's can print to it directly.
Does anyone have any suggestions we could try? Thanks in advance.

While it is quite a while since this was posted - I can concur a similar issue exists.
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it seems to be most commonly related to the OfficeJet Pro 8600/8610/8620/8630 series printers.
I ended up doing a print server migration from the domain controller to stand alone host and all printers now work from a single server rather than a mix. Domain controller OSes varied from 2008, 2012, 2012 R2 (tested with multiple) and only after
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Printing Problem with Epson LX-300+ii and LX-310 in Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit

I recently installed Windows Server 2012 R2 64-Bit.
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the Easy Print driver.
And I was right, using the Easy Print driver, I got the following result:
And so, I did manual mapping & disable the "Use Remote Desktop Easy Print printer driver first". Haha, what a surprise, I got the following result:
And so I uninstalled the printer driver, and install it again, thinking that I might chose a wrong driver, but.... same result. I know for sure that I chose the correct driver.
Next, I tried connecting the printer DIRECTLY to the server. Log-in to the Server directly,
not using Remote Desktop. And tried printing again, haha... really... what a surprise... I got the same problem here !!!
So now I know the problem is not the Easy Print driver, not mapping or registry problem either. It's the print driver. This is SUPER FRUSTRATING, I tried the same driver from the same CD in Windows 8.1 64-Bit with no problem. I tried it too in Windows 7
32-Bit with no-problem either. But somehow, this driver is problematic in Windows Server 2012 R2.
Any help? Anybody else bump into this same problem ? I'm close to giving up, been spending too much time figuring out this damn thing.
Andy

Hi Bulent Sahin,
Thank you for your reply, I tried IBM Graphics driver, but the result is equally as bad. But your answer inspire me to try different drivers. And so, the closest & best driver that I could use now is EPSON ESC/P 9pin V4 Class Driver
It's not as good as I would expect, but at least now, it's acceptable & readable. I can't believe that I'm the only one who have this problem
Thank you Mr. Sahin

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