I have a Fax device set up on my Windows Server 2012 Standard box. I can fax successfully if I do not have a cover page. However, if I specify a cover page I get an error when clicking the Send button: "The message could not be sent. The printer name is invalid."
I've tried different cover pages. I've even created a cover page with no info so it's something beyond an error in the cover page.
I've searched a bit and didn't really find anything that completely addressed what I am experiencing.
We have an HP 8000n, 5200N, 1050c plotter, Canon iPF825 plotter and Konica Minolta C552 MFP. All are set on a Server 2003 R2 print server and a Server 2008 R2 print server. All drivers and firmware are up-to-date.
Issue 1) when printing PDF files to with the KM C552, it take forever for the job to finish spooling through either of the print server. However, if I have the printer installed on a Windows 7 64bit or XP Pro 32bit client as direct IP printing it spits right out lickity split.
Issue 2) if anybody on a Windows 7 client tries to print something like directions from Google map, or print an airline boarding pass from a website for example, through the Server 2008 R2 print server to any printer the job starts to spool, then errors and nothing else will print until that job is manually deleted. This does not seem to happen with direct IP printing or when printing through the Server 2003 R2 print server.
Here is the rub - I need to have at least the Konica Minolta C552 print through a print server because we require a few standard settings for printing. If I have the printers installed as direct IP printing it is much more time consuming to enforce our printing standards, even in a small 40 person office.
I also don't want to fall back to printing everything though the Server 2003 print server because a) that doesn't solve the slow PDF printing issue and b) we intend to phase out of Server 2003 servers.
Manning
Anyone know what tool I can use to migrate pritners from a 2003 server to another 2003 server. I keep seing PRINTMIG being referenced but cant find this anywhere!!
Help!
Thanks
Joe.
I have 2 Windows 2003 x86 Standard servers (ServerA and ServerB)
I have installed some printers on both of them with x86 drivers.
Now I need to install x64 printer drivers as well.
I open Printers and Faxes - Server Properties - Drivers - Add
On ServerA I can choose the x64 option, but the option is not there on ServerB
On ServerB I have tried:
- Installing via the share, from a x64 client, but not possible
- Additional drivers on the share tab of the printer - same problem, no x64 option
- Exported a x64 driver using printmig.exe from ServerA. Imported it to ServerB. Error in event log: "Printer TESTx64 failed to initialize because a suitable KONICA MINOLTA C554SeriesPS SP driver could not be found."
When i search for others with the same problem I get flooded by the normal x86/x64 printer driver problems of having the same version, using the additional driver button and trying to install via the share from a x64 system
How can I get the x64 option back on serverB?
Thanks
I have a very annoying issue. When I attempt to add a Printer from PrintServer1 (2008 server) to a MemberServer01 (2008 server) via the following command:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\PrintServer1\Printer
I receive this error: "Windows cannot connect to the printer. Operation could not be completed (error 0x0000007e)" However, when I run this same command from a Windows 7 or Windows XP client, it works like a charm. Now,
I've googled, and read plenty, but can't seem to find any solutions that really apply to this particular situation. Any help that can be provided would be GREATLY appreciated!
We have a unique situation where our organization's main office, running on Windows Server 2003 needs to be able to print to a printer at a remote satellite location. I setup a Windows XP Pro desktop at the remote location and connected to the server via VPN. I have direct access to all server services from the remote desktop, no problem. I directly connected the printer via USB to the remote desktop and shared it. I can print to the printer from the remote desktop no problem. From the main office server, I can find the shared printer in the directory, but cannot connect to it -- when I try, I get a 'Windows cannot connect to the printer. Either the printer name was typed incorrectly, or the specified printer has lost it's connection to the server' error. I get the same error if I tried to directly specify the name of the printer as \\desktopname\printershare. Any ideas?
Hi all,
I cannot find this setting in the regedit nor in the setprinter.exe.
Any way to disable this setting via e.g. a script? I need to disable it on all queues on a server...
Thanks,
David
I am not getting the round radial menu on onenote 2013 which i installed today (23/08/13) , instead the menu is rectangular and it does give many options as round radial menu . Is it possible to change radial menu?
This may be the wrong place to post this, but I can't seem to find a more appropriate place.
I have a Ricoh Aficio SP c830dn printer that I need to print to our Windows 2008 Server R2 print server. When sending prints to the printer they hang in the print queue on the Mac with the status "Printing - Copying print data".
The Windows server is configured with LPR services enabled.
Printer is added on the Mac using LPD.
Same configuration we use on several dozen successfully printing HP printers.
The behavior is consistant across Apple hardware.
The behavior is consistant across various Mac OS X versions 10.7.x and 10.8.x.
I can print directly to the printer without issue usng IP printing.
I can print to the Windows print server with the generic postscript driver no problem.
I can print to the Windows print server from Window 7 without issue.
The problem definitely seems to be between Mac OS X using the Ricoh driver and Windows print server.
If I leave the job in the print queue long enough (20-30 minutes) the job will evenutually complete.
I've tried vaious versions of the Windows drivers on the print server to see if they have any impact, and they all produce the same result.
I contacted Ricoh and they said they don't support using their printers through a Windows print server on Mac OS X. They did offer to sell me an annual network service contract to help figure out why it doesn't work, but would not gaurentee that they would solve the issue.
If anyone can provide some asisstance in configuring this correctly your assistance would be appreciated.
If anyone wants to spread the word that Ricoh is not an Apple friendly company and should be avoided... that would also be appreciated.
Sincerely,
Karl
Hi,
I have searched far and wide for answer to this, but to no avail:
I've setup a Windows Server 2012 Essentials server and configured the fax server. Faxes come in fine but only about half end up in the Inbox on the clients (i.e. viewable in "Windows Fax and Scan" app). The rest stay in the folder where they are received and I don't see any event log entry or anything telling me what happened. According to the docs, even partial receives should go to the inbox.
Now the users are complaining that they are not getting important faxes in their Inbox on "Windows Fax and Scan" (I don't have and don't want email forwarding setup). I tried copying the files from the receive/archive folders to the inbox manually but those files can't be seen on the clients fax viewer.
So, I'd like to know how I can move all files with the name "Fax00000xx" from the receive folder and archive folder back into the Inbox so that the users can see them?
Thank you.
Sunil
Hello
I am having the strangest issue with our print server. We recently took over a location and they had previously installed every single printer to this print server. Everything seemed to be running smooth until the other day when we pushed out Kaspersky to the server. I received a call from them that printers were randomly going offline and they were unable to print. Sometimes the print jobs would go through, but 90% of the time they would not. I disabled kaspersky thinking that was the issue but i still got reports of the problem with printing. I then remoted into the server while they were having the problem and i open printers and devices and the printers were gone... I refreshed a few mins later and they came back, I then refreshed again a few mins later and they were gone again. I am not sure what is going on, it seems like the print spooler keeps crashing. Has anyone had an issue like this before?
Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Admin
Source: Microsoft-Windows-PrintService
Date: 8/28/2013 12:30:09 PM
Event ID: 329
Task Category: Publishing a printer in the Active Directory
Level: Error
Keywords: Active Directory,Classic Spooler Event
User: SYSTEM
Computer: CSA-DC02
Description:
While attempting to publish the printer to the Active Directory directory service, the print spooler could
not find the appropriate print queue container because the Domain Name System (DNS) domain name could not be retrieved. Error: 6d3. This can occur if DNS cannot resolve the domain controller IP address, or if the domain controller or directory service is not
functioning correctly. The printer is not published in Active Directory and cannot be located by searching Active Directory.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns="">
<System>
<Provider Name="Microsoft-Windows-PrintService" Guid="{747EF6FD-E535-4D16-B510-42C90F6873A1}"
/>
<EventID>329</EventID>
<Version>0</Version>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>33</Task>
<Opcode>12</Opcode>
<Keywords>0x8000000000001800</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2013-08-28T16:30:09.154610000Z" />
<EventRecordID>23936</EventRecordID>
<Correlation />
<Execution ProcessID="6484" ThreadID="2116" />
<Channel>Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Admin</Channel>
<Computer>csa-dc02</Computer>
<Security UserID="S-1-5-18" />
</System>
<UserData>
<CantGetDnsDomainName xmlns:auto-ns3="
xmlns="">
<Param1>6d3</Param1>
</CantGetDnsDomainName>
</UserData>
</Event>
Using a Office Jet 6500 on a local workstation in a terminal server environment. When printing from a remote session, the printer works, but we cannot print landscape. The Excel spreadsheet shows and previews as landscape, but when it is printed, it is not rotated on the page properly.
If we print to a different printer, the document prints properly, so it is just an issue with the OfficeJet's
All RDP clients are updated to the latest versions, and all updates on the server are current...
Any suggestions?
Brian
So Windows 7 can easlity find the printers and install them but xp cant even find the printers on the network
I presume if it was a driver issue with xp I couldnt install the printers but I would still beable to see the printers on the directory but nothing shows up
Im a bit stumped
Hi,
I have a Server 2008 R2 print server, serving a mixture of clients 7,XP (32&64). We have Papercut (print logging) software installed on the server.
We are seeing intermittent jobs on Print Queues logged as workstation name instead of username, it is on random jobs i.e. Word, PDF, Internet Explorer and random clients. Unable to find a common link as to why it happens
See Papercut kb - www.papercut.com/kb/Main/JobsOwnedByComputer
We have denied computers object as well as individual workstations on the Print Queue but it still allows computers to print. It seems like a bug in Windows that this is still allowed to occur.
Any ideas?
Cheers
Ross
I am trying to find a script for this:
If number of printed pages > 10 then print separator page with owner name, date, time
The purpose of this is that often times, clients print 10+ pages and never claim it.
Less than 10 pages, it will print without separator page.
Thanks in advance!