Printer Specifications & Printer Connections (Local and Remote)

 

Printer Specifics (Local and Remote)

Laser and Inkjet Printers:

Generally speaking, any printer that can print in Windows should print from RFMS Windows. However, RFMS recommends Hewlett-Packard laser printers in the LaserJet 4 series and later.

When printing is desired via network printers and not local printers on every workstation, Windows Print Sharing is not sufficient.

Recommended printer properties are as follows:

• Capable of using PCL5 or later
• Capable of condensing or scaling print to 19cpi or smaller
• Capable of printing on Legal-size paper (8.5x14) as well as Letter-size paper (8.5x11)
• Can be USB, or Network
• If using an installed printer on an RD Server, make sure it is TS Compatible

Remote Printing

Printers can be set up in a variety of ways:

Redirected Printers with Easy Print:

When using Easy Print, it must be enabled on the RD Box. This will take your local printer and associate a Universal Printer on the RD Session to this Printer. This allows the Technician to keep the RD Box clean from driver installs for Printers (as well as updates to printer drivers).

Please refer to this link, which further explains Easy Print: http://www.virtualizationadmin.com/articles-tutorials/vdi-articles/microsoft-hyper- v/howconfigure-microsoft-rds-universal-printing.html

Physically Installed on RD Box (with VPN):

To use this, you must install the printer on the RD Box. This is done identically to installing a network printer on a network PC.

• The printer driver must be TS Compatible. Installing a non-supported TS Compatible Printer on an RD Box could cause various issues from OS Issues, BSOD Issues, or failure to load correctly.

Third-Party Add-on Programs:

There are various options for this, which generally have a server install and a client install. This will allow the client to communicate to the Server Side through the RD Session and associate printers on the local system to the RD Session. The printers should show within RFMS as a printer selection. One program we have had success with is called TSPrint.