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Best Practices Using Ricoh Universal Printer Drivers (UPD) In Microsoft Print Server Environments 1
Best Practices Using Ricoh Universal Printer Drivers (UPD) In Microsoft Print Server Environments 1
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Table of Contents 1 OVERVIEW ...3 2 DESCRIPTION ...3 3 SUPPORT ...3 4 SETUP...4 5 INSTALLING THE RICOH PCL6/PS UNIVERSAL PRINT DRIVER 5 5.1 WINDOWS 7, SERVER 2008 R2 ...6 5.2 WINDOWS 2000, XP, 2003, VISTA, 2008 6 5.3 WINDOWS 7, SERVER 2008 R2 USING GROUP POLICY 7 6 DRIVER PRE-CONFIGURATION WITH PDE 7 7 UPGRADING THE RICOH PCL6/PS UNIVERSAL PRINT DRIVER TO A NEWER VERSION....... 10 8 UNINSTALLING THE RICOH PCL6/PS UNIVERSAL PRINT DRIVER 12 9 CITRIX SUPPORT ...13 10 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 15 11 KNOWN ISSUES ...16 12 FIXES ...18 13 NON-SUPPORTED MODELS ...22 14 SUPPORTED MODELS...23 2
Table of Contents 1 OVERVIEW ...3 2 DESCRIPTION ...3 3 SUPPORT ...3 4 SETUP...4 5 INSTALLING THE RICOH PCL6/PS UNIVERSAL PRINT DRIVER 5 5.1 WINDOWS 7, SERVER 2008 R2 ...6 5.2 WINDOWS 2000, XP, 2003, VISTA, 2008 6 5.3 WINDOWS 7, SERVER 2008 R2 USING GROUP POLICY 7 6 DRIVER PRE-CONFIGURATION WITH PDE 7 7 UPGRADING THE RICOH PCL6/PS UNIVERSAL PRINT DRIVER TO A NEWER VERSION....... 10 8 UNINSTALLING THE RICOH PCL6/PS UNIVERSAL PRINT DRIVER 12 9 CITRIX SUPPORT ...13 10 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 15 11 KNOWN ISSUES ...16 12 FIXES ...18 13 NON-SUPPORTED MODELS ...22 14 SUPPORTED MODELS...23 2
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... for using Ricoh Universal Printer Drivers in your server environment and reduced the amount of client, server, and application issues that your model is intended to be used across your users. http://rfgesource.ricohusa.com/oracle/groups/public/documents/communication/rfg042293.pdf 3 Support Please verify that could affect the performance of the UPD. 2 Description Ricoh's Universal Print Driver provides a single intelligent advanced driver, which can be a guide for use in...
... for using Ricoh Universal Printer Drivers in your server environment and reduced the amount of client, server, and application issues that your model is intended to be used across your users. http://rfgesource.ricohusa.com/oracle/groups/public/documents/communication/rfg042293.pdf 3 Support Please verify that could affect the performance of the UPD. 2 Description Ricoh's Universal Print Driver provides a single intelligent advanced driver, which can be a guide for use in...
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... images. In Office 2010, you try to create a Point and Print connection to a remote printer from the printer, turn background printing on or off, do the following: 4 "Windows cannot connect to printer" error message when you print a PowerPoint presentation that may affect UPD printing. ¾ KB article 2121850 - A computer that uses Unidrv.dll (After the hotfix is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 intermittently cannot use a shared network printer to print...
... images. In Office 2010, you try to create a Point and Print connection to a remote printer from the printer, turn background printing on or off, do the following: 4 "Windows cannot connect to printer" error message when you print a PowerPoint presentation that may affect UPD printing. ¾ KB article 2121850 - A computer that uses Unidrv.dll (After the hotfix is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 intermittently cannot use a shared network printer to print...
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... Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Print Clusters 5 Installing the Ricoh PCL6/PS Universal Print Driver Outlined below . Ricoh recommends using the latest version of the Universal Print Driver, which can be found at the end of the jobs ¾ KB article 2592142 - Erratic print behavior when printing certain Microsoft Power Point 2007 files. Office 2010 printing errors with Calibri font when printing through a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 print server Hotfixes that are created correctly (All default...
... Windows Server 2008 R2 Failover Print Clusters 5 Installing the Ricoh PCL6/PS Universal Print Driver Outlined below . Ricoh recommends using the latest version of the Universal Print Driver, which can be found at the end of the jobs ¾ KB article 2592142 - Erratic print behavior when printing certain Microsoft Power Point 2007 files. Office 2010 printing errors with Calibri font when printing through a Windows Server 2003 or 2008 print server Hotfixes that are created correctly (All default...
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... archive downloaded from the Start menu. Step 9 Follow the rest of the Wizard's instructions to complete the installation. 5.2 Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 Step 1 Log in to use existing ports created for Ricoh devices and all other manufacturer's drivers. (Settings like Bidirectional support may be displayed. Step 6 Enter the "Device" IP address and uncheck "Query the printer and automatically select the driver to Windows as the port type and...
... archive downloaded from the Start menu. Step 9 Follow the rest of the Wizard's instructions to complete the installation. 5.2 Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008 Step 1 Log in to use existing ports created for Ricoh devices and all other manufacturer's drivers. (Settings like Bidirectional support may be displayed. Step 6 Enter the "Device" IP address and uncheck "Query the printer and automatically select the driver to Windows as the port type and...
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... create a new GPO for storing the printer connections. Step 2 In the left pane, click Print Servers, click the applicable print server, and click Printers. Step 7 Click Add. For per -user connections, Windows adds the printer connections during the next background policy refresh or user logon. 6 Driver Pre-Configuration With PDE Many customers require company-wide default settings to be pre-configured using Group Policy, you remove the printer connection settings from the GPO, Windows removes the corresponding printers from any...
... create a new GPO for storing the printer connections. Step 2 In the left pane, click Print Servers, click the applicable print server, and click Printers. Step 7 Click Add. For per -user connections, Windows adds the printer connections during the next background policy refresh or user logon. 6 Driver Pre-Configuration With PDE Many customers require company-wide default settings to be pre-configured using Group Policy, you remove the printer connection settings from the GPO, Windows removes the corresponding printers from any...
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... specify to display or hide each printer function to run the devices with customized setting values. ¾ The setting values can use of certain functions or forcing default print driver settings, such as default setting to prevent other users from [Select option:] you are using. In addition, from changing them on the type of device or printer driver selected. Ricoh's Printer Driver Editor is a configuration tool for creating custom driver settings, eliminating the process of "requesting" driver changes. The Printer Driver Editor...
... specify to display or hide each printer function to run the devices with customized setting values. ¾ The setting values can use of certain functions or forcing default print driver settings, such as default setting to prevent other users from [Select option:] you are using. In addition, from changing them on the type of device or printer driver selected. Ricoh's Printer Driver Editor is a configuration tool for creating custom driver settings, eliminating the process of "requesting" driver changes. The Printer Driver Editor...
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... installation is the Print Processor may be set incorrectly. Step 8 Log the current user account off. 11 Ver.2.1.0.0), the upgrade procedure might result in changes to RAW. Step 2 Open the Properties of the printer to be found under the "Advanced" tab of the driver. Updating the driver via the "New Driver Button", does not change the print processor. The Print processor can be upgraded. Step 1 Open the "Printers" folder (or "Printers...
... installation is the Print Processor may be set incorrectly. Step 8 Log the current user account off. 11 Ver.2.1.0.0), the upgrade procedure might result in changes to RAW. Step 2 Open the Properties of the printer to be found under the "Advanced" tab of the driver. Updating the driver via the "New Driver Button", does not change the print processor. The Print processor can be upgraded. Step 1 Open the "Printers" folder (or "Printers...
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... the printer driver installed on the XenApp server (local printer) Using a print server: ¾ Using the client's printer driver that is being shared from a print server: Auto-Create Printer (Native ¾ Printer Driver) ¾ Using the client's printer driver that is being shared from a print server: Auto-Create Printer (Citrix ¾ UPD) ¾ Using a printer driver that is always shared by a print server ¾ PCL6 Driver for Universal Print using a policy (Session Printer) ¾ Using a printer driver that is being shared by a print server using the Citrix Printer Test Kits.
... the printer driver installed on the XenApp server (local printer) Using a print server: ¾ Using the client's printer driver that is being shared from a print server: Auto-Create Printer (Native ¾ Printer Driver) ¾ Using the client's printer driver that is being shared from a print server: Auto-Create Printer (Citrix ¾ UPD) ¾ Using a printer driver that is always shared by a print server ¾ PCL6 Driver for Universal Print using a policy (Session Printer) ¾ Using a printer driver that is being shared by a print server using the Citrix Printer Test Kits.
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... errors, depending on another server, is not supported for Universal Print ¾ Some driver settings from Microsoft Office 2010 results in the document. A long delay occurs when you have to the printer. Print speed can become very large as soon as Job Type settings, paper size, output tray, etc.). It should be affected by Ricoh. Limitation: ¾ The Citrix replication function, which replicates driver files - Please manually install the printer driver on a Windows 7 or Windows Server...
... errors, depending on another server, is not supported for Universal Print ¾ Some driver settings from Microsoft Office 2010 results in the document. A long delay occurs when you have to the printer. Print speed can become very large as soon as Job Type settings, paper size, output tray, etc.). It should be affected by Ricoh. Limitation: ¾ The Citrix replication function, which replicates driver files - Please manually install the printer driver on a Windows 7 or Windows Server...
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... images may not be submitted to set the number of free disk space. * With some cases, Separator pages might be stapled parallel to print when the "Graphics Mode" is "Raster" then parts of the paper. [Booklet/Duplex] in [Setup] Tab: Printing a large document in [Setup] Tab: When "Copies" is selected on the "Print Quality" tab. * If Graphics Mode is "Vector". In such a case, the document will be output as blank...
... images may not be submitted to set the number of free disk space. * With some cases, Separator pages might be stapled parallel to print when the "Graphics Mode" is "Raster" then parts of the paper. [Booklet/Duplex] in [Setup] Tab: Printing a large document in [Setup] Tab: When "Copies" is selected on the "Print Quality" tab. * If Graphics Mode is "Vector". In such a case, the document will be output as blank...
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..., change the color mode to "Black and White" or "Monochrome". In this case, to close the window, click "X" button on your computer might not print correctly. [CMYK used for Black and White Documents] Black and White documents might be printed in full color (CMYK). In this blank page might result in a paper mismatch error. Note: "cover" = Front Cover, Back Cover or Chaptering Pages [Graphics/Images] ¾ Use the "Printing Preferences > Print Quality > Image Processing > Best" setting to clean...
..., change the color mode to "Black and White" or "Monochrome". In this case, to close the window, click "X" button on your computer might not print correctly. [CMYK used for Black and White Documents] Black and White documents might be printed in full color (CMYK). In this blank page might result in a paper mismatch error. Note: "cover" = Front Cover, Back Cover or Chaptering Pages [Graphics/Images] ¾ Use the "Printing Preferences > Print Quality > Image Processing > Best" setting to clean...
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... error "The handle is removed. This only affected PCL Universal Print Driver's that had been installed over an older version using the New Driver button. ¾ The driver version displayed by the client application. ¾ Registry entries remain on the system after the driver is invalid." This only affected PCL Universal Print Driver's that had been installed over an older version using the New Driver button, the setting Automatically Update Printer Information will be disabled. Upgrades with Duplex, Front cover...
... error "The handle is removed. This only affected PCL Universal Print Driver's that had been installed over an older version using the New Driver button. ¾ The driver version displayed by the client application. ¾ Registry entries remain on the system after the driver is invalid." This only affected PCL Universal Print Driver's that had been installed over an older version using the New Driver button, the setting Automatically Update Printer Information will be disabled. Upgrades with Duplex, Front cover...
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... version between 1.1.0.0 and 1.3.0.0, using the New Driver button, results in the user unable to open the Printing Preferences or Printer Properties window. 19 Version 3.8.0.0 Fixed ¾ The document fails to print if the user account to log in to the OS contains the following settings: "2 sided" is installed in an MSCS environment. This issue only affects 32-bit applications running on all pages. ¾ Updating to version 3.6.0.0 from...
... version between 1.1.0.0 and 1.3.0.0, using the New Driver button, results in the user unable to open the Printing Preferences or Printer Properties window. 19 Version 3.8.0.0 Fixed ¾ The document fails to print if the user account to log in to the OS contains the following settings: "2 sided" is installed in an MSCS environment. This issue only affects 32-bit applications running on all pages. ¾ Updating to version 3.6.0.0 from...
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... Printing Preferences without closing Printer Properties and then opening the Accessories tab and changing models, the device option names are outside of an iPrint printer by the Printer Driver Editor might be selected on a 64-bit OS. ¾ Unavailable options might appear behind the application window. This has fixed a problem affecting the use of the driver with Combit List & Label. ¾ Jobs containing objects that results in an application error...
... Printing Preferences without closing Printer Properties and then opening the Accessories tab and changing models, the device option names are outside of an iPrint printer by the Printer Driver Editor might be selected on a 64-bit OS. ¾ Unavailable options might appear behind the application window. This has fixed a problem affecting the use of the driver with Combit List & Label. ¾ Jobs containing objects that results in an application error...
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...; The Aficio MP 171/171F/171SPF UI's User Authentication settings are applied to all text as black" is enabled. ¾ The Settings > Save/Load function doesn't backup/restore the "Chapter Pages List". ¾ Switching to other PCL drivers. ¾ If the driver is slow compared to this driver from the wrong tray. This occurred even if "Increase autokeep settings for applications" was off . Version 3.3.0.0 Fixed ¾ Color images printed in...
...; The Aficio MP 171/171F/171SPF UI's User Authentication settings are applied to all text as black" is enabled. ¾ The Settings > Save/Load function doesn't backup/restore the "Chapter Pages List". ¾ Switching to other PCL drivers. ¾ If the driver is slow compared to this driver from the wrong tray. This occurred even if "Increase autokeep settings for applications" was off . Version 3.3.0.0 Fixed ¾ Color images printed in...
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... affect some models equipped with passwords of a PDF document containing embedded fonts might have no effect if printing from updating automatically. Version 2.0.0.0 Fixed ¾ The incorrect English used by the driver's default UI for Unix" might be installed as an input tray. Version 1.4.0.0 Fixed Documents that include specific fonts are not printed. Version 1.3.0.0 Fixed Some driver settings might result in the device throwing a PCL error and aborting the print job. ¾ Locked Print jobs with 2 hole...
... affect some models equipped with passwords of a PDF document containing embedded fonts might have no effect if printing from updating automatically. Version 2.0.0.0 Fixed ¾ The incorrect English used by the driver's default UI for Unix" might be installed as an input tray. Version 1.4.0.0 Fixed Documents that include specific fonts are not printed. Version 1.3.0.0 Fixed Some driver settings might result in the device throwing a PCL error and aborting the print job. ¾ Locked Print jobs with 2 hole...
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The only non-GW controller models that are supported are supported. Only models with GW controllers are the 4410 and the 3510 in generic mode. 14 Supported Models Check the README file within the UPD download for a list of the most recent supported models. [Color Digital Copier] Aficio MP C3500/C4500, Aficio MP C2000/C2500/C3000, MP C3500/C4500, MP C2000/C2500/C3000, DSc 535/545, DSc520/525/530...
The only non-GW controller models that are supported are supported. Only models with GW controllers are the 4410 and the 3510 in generic mode. 14 Supported Models Check the README file within the UPD download for a list of the most recent supported models. [Color Digital Copier] Aficio MP C3500/C4500, Aficio MP C2000/C2500/C3000, MP C3500/C4500, MP C2000/C2500/C3000, DSc 535/545, DSc520/525/530...
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..., MLP31nL, LP131nL, Aficio SP 8200DN, Aficio AP610N, Aficio AP410/AP410n, SP 8200DN, P7535n, P7527/P7527n, MLP150DN, MLP35n, MLP28/MLP28n, LP150dn, LP135n, LP128/LP128n, Aficio SP 4210N, SP 4210N, MLP37N, LP37N, Aficio AP900, P7575, MLP75n, LP175hdn, Aficio SP 8200DN,SP 8200DN,MLP150DN, LP150dn, Aficio SP 6330N,SP 6330N,MLP235n,LP235N, Aficio SP 4310N,SP 4310N, Aficio SP 5200DN/5210DN, SP 5200DN/5210DN For the latest fixes and supported models, Ricoh recommends using the latest version of the Universal Print Driver, which can...
..., MLP31nL, LP131nL, Aficio SP 8200DN, Aficio AP610N, Aficio AP410/AP410n, SP 8200DN, P7535n, P7527/P7527n, MLP150DN, MLP35n, MLP28/MLP28n, LP150dn, LP135n, LP128/LP128n, Aficio SP 4210N, SP 4210N, MLP37N, LP37N, Aficio AP900, P7575, MLP75n, LP175hdn, Aficio SP 8200DN,SP 8200DN,MLP150DN, LP150dn, Aficio SP 6330N,SP 6330N,MLP235n,LP235N, Aficio SP 4310N,SP 4310N, Aficio SP 5200DN/5210DN, SP 5200DN/5210DN For the latest fixes and supported models, Ricoh recommends using the latest version of the Universal Print Driver, which can...
