Hi Guys
We have been using 2x Universal Printing now for a couple of years on v9 - most of the time it works fine.
With the advent of XG, the printing model has changed & whilst we have read everything we can find about this, we still seem to be drawing a blank.
On XG we can print fine in legacy mode ie Universal Printer and the client set to Specific Only but when we change to the newer mode, it all gets a bit wobbly.
When the server is set to new (DEFAULT - %PRINTERNAME% for %USERNAME% by 2X) mode, the printers from the client are succfessfully mapped to the server when the client connects and can be seen in Devices & Printers on the server. Good so far.
However, no combination of settings on the client will now print anything as nothing is sent from the server. The items "Do not set default printer on the server" and "Show client printer preferences window before printing" do not seem to do anything.
The 2x manuals state that the mapped printers will be available in the order that they are displayed in the client ie only the 1st in the list will be used to print if the ALL setting is chosen on the client - how can we change the order of printers in the client?
The only combination that will print anything is server set to legacy mode ie Universal Printer and Specific Only set on the client with the appropriate printer ticked.
Have we completely misunderstood this ? It should be a great idea but the last piece does not seem to be finished !!
We are running 2008 R2 servers. We assume that 2z will install 64 bit versions of everything when running on a 64 bit platform. Running XG 10.1 build 1227 on servers
Any thoughts?
SpringBox
We have been using 2x Universal Printing now for a couple of years on v9 - most of the time it works fine.
With the advent of XG, the printing model has changed & whilst we have read everything we can find about this, we still seem to be drawing a blank.
On XG we can print fine in legacy mode ie Universal Printer and the client set to Specific Only but when we change to the newer mode, it all gets a bit wobbly.
When the server is set to new (DEFAULT - %PRINTERNAME% for %USERNAME% by 2X) mode, the printers from the client are succfessfully mapped to the server when the client connects and can be seen in Devices & Printers on the server. Good so far.
However, no combination of settings on the client will now print anything as nothing is sent from the server. The items "Do not set default printer on the server" and "Show client printer preferences window before printing" do not seem to do anything.
The 2x manuals state that the mapped printers will be available in the order that they are displayed in the client ie only the 1st in the list will be used to print if the ALL setting is chosen on the client - how can we change the order of printers in the client?
The only combination that will print anything is server set to legacy mode ie Universal Printer and Specific Only set on the client with the appropriate printer ticked.
Have we completely misunderstood this ? It should be a great idea but the last piece does not seem to be finished !!
We are running 2008 R2 servers. We assume that 2z will install 64 bit versions of everything when running on a 64 bit platform. Running XG 10.1 build 1227 on servers
Any thoughts?
SpringBox