Printer driver Puns

Microsoft should be horsewhipped for this crap. I haven't found a way to reliably install print drivers on workstations and map printers via GPO without enabling the vulnerabilities (which isn't an option). The nightmare part of this is the pathetic job Microsoft has done in addressing the issue and the resolution.

I've spent many hours trying to find a workaround that works on a mixture of windows 10 build versions.

If you've found a workaround, please let me know. SURELY someone has figured this out.

Hello! I'm trying to help someone else with hardware that's not compatible with recent versions of Windows, but I'm running out of options and wondering if this last idea may work.

This is the situation: a new computer was bought and it is no longer possible to use a specific (expensive) printer that has been discontinued - the drivers can only be installed in Windows XP, using compatibility mode does not help.

Meanwhile, using my computer, I've been able to boot a Windows XP virtual machine (virtual box) and install the drivers provided by the manufacturer (it didn't show any errors). If I reproduce this on the computer which is connected to the printer, could it be possible to use the printer again?

Thanks!

Anyone running into an issue adding network printers in Windows 10 recently? We used to be able to let the users add their own printers from the Windows 10 Printer Settings UI, but now even the administrators can't add the printers on their behalf. Here's the error we get:

That didn't work. We can't install this printer right now. Try again later or contact your network administrator for help. Error: #740.

I notice this is error only occurs for the Canon printers which use Type 3 PCL6 x64 drivers. No errors when we try to add the HP printers which use Type 4 PCL6 x64 drivers. Should we be moving to Type 4 across the board?

First post here, so hopefully this is okay, but i'm trying to install a driver for an old laserjet 1320 on windows 10. I've seen some blogs indicating that you should download the xp driver, as the windows 10 isn't available but that still doesn't seem to be working. I'm not highly techincal, but have tried everything i can think of so far. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hey everyone - hopefully someone can help me with this. At the moment we have a few Canon printers in our environment which need specific drivers to unlock all their features for every end user. Right now users are using self service and installing a package with a generic driver that has been packaged in Composer - we had tons of issues using a SMB print queue so have switched to LPD and it is working fine. The problem I have is I cannot seem to map a printer to a mac and select my custom Canon driver to use instead of a generic one (when making my snapshot). When making the LPD queue and trying to search for the driver package, all PKG and DMG files are greyed out and not selectable? So I tried to make a seperate install package just with the driver so after the user maps the printer with the generic driver, they can install the specific driver package. The problem with this is even though the new driver is installed to the machine, in order to make it operational with the printer, I have to manually go into CUPS and select the driver. Anyone have any ideas on how I can make just a single package that installs the printer with the custom driver?

I've got a print server (on win server 2019) with a bunch of label printers of same model (so same driver).

Label printing requires additional setup for custom label sizes (right click on printer > settings > preferences, so basically driver-based settings), which is what I did on print server side. So all it remains is to add these printers to users through group policy (user configuration, through group policy preference).

All users are either on Win10 LTSB (1607) or Win10 LTSC (1809), fully patched (except this month as its too fresh), it works the same regardless of version.

But here's the catch - some users (more like workstations) do not inherit these custom settings.

There are two kinds of workstations.

1. fresh installs or those who never had this printer (actually driver of that printer) installed previously - these do inherit driver-based settings from print servers, at least on this first installation

2. "old" workstations, that previously did have these printers (more like any printer that used this driver) - these workstations do not inherit settings from print server and just have their own settings - some workstations got nothing but default settings, some got settings that was set up previously, weeks/months/years before

So question is - how to force each and every printer installation to inherit these settings?

This is what I've tried:

1. label printer drivers are known to be clunky - I initially blamed thisspecific driver, but this behaviour remained consistent with other printers of other vendors (tested on a few konica minolta and canon printers I had). So it's definitely not that driver's fault

2. tried clean install of 1809 LTSC windows, connect to printer, set some settings on client side, delete printer, change label settings on server side and connect printer back - new settings weren't acquired, but I had settings that I've manually done on client side. So it's definitely not other software or some incompatible GPO or whatnot.

3. searched through registry for existent settings to find where these settings are actually stored - in this driver's case it was here HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Seagull Scientific\Drivers\@printserverhostname\LOCAL:\Paper Sizes - tried to delete driver package from windows and then delete whole hiveHKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Seagull Scientific in attempt to 'clear everything about this driver' - and then reconnect printer from printserver - no settings at all (only default)

Hey guys.

Anyone run into this? And anyone got any solutions at all?

The gov website is requiring a specific set of printers and ours somehow doesn't sit on the list. We still need to print though and the printer isn't new or obscure or anything, it's an EPSON.

Need help!

Hi,

I'm currently trying to install the Konica Minolta Printer Drivers for a Bizhub C458.

I've tried:

1. Using the Konica Tool to "roll your own" drivers and package them into a .exe file, which installs the drivers and adds the Printer automatically. I can run this .exe manually and it installs no problem. I do get a prompt that this software can harm the device and I have to agree manually to have it install though. After Packaging this .exe into an intunwin Win32 app, it doesn't install. I run it in System Context with the install command "Tredomen (Office).exe" (without the quotes).

2. I've downloaded the Konica Universal Print Driver, and created a PowerShell script as described here: https://call4cloud.nl/2021/07/what-about-printer-drivers/

The amended script is as follows:

#Konica Universal Printer Tredomen Office
C:\Windows\SysNative\pnputil.exe /add-driver "$psscriptroot\Drivers\KOBxxK__01.inf" /install
Add-PrinterDriver -Name "KONICA MINOLTA Universal V4 PCL"

#Install Printerport with check if the port already exist
$portName = "IP_192.168.1.208"
$PortAddress = "IP_192.168.1.208"
$checkPortExists = Get-Printerport -Name $portname -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
if (-not $checkPortExists) {
Add-PrinterPort -name $portName -PrinterHostAddress $PortAddress
}

#Install Printer
Add-Printer "Tredomen (Office)" -DriverName "KONICA MINOLTA Universal V4 PCL" -PortName $portname

SLEEP 360

Again, run in System Content with the Install Command:

https://preview.redd.it/weba0xi90h881.png?width=605&format=png&auto=webp&s=1b2c0713301513fed35b5bae3e4be78b1d6db9fc

The app is picked up on the target device and downloaded, but install fails. The drivers are not in Print Management, nor is the specific printer added to the available list.

Can anyone offer any advice as to where I'm going wrong please?

Many thanks :)

Anyone else deploy and use the Xerox Global Printer Driver have issues finding a V4 driver?

They have references it on their site all over that they have a PCL6 V4 driver, however on their download site and everything... it's gone. I cannot find any live links to it at all. Similar posts on other community sites say that they don't seem available with no real answer from Xerox. All I can find are V4 drivers for specific printers, not universal.

We currently have the V3 Global Print Driver deployed, and are now running into issues with it due to the PrintNightmare security changes where local admin rights are required to install drivers. (Same problem EVERYONE is dealing with now...). I have mitigated this by pushing our a task that runs as local systems that pre-installs the print driver from a network share on all systems. However I'd like to really remedy this by just using V4 drivers.

I can find some old 7.x versions of the driver from 2018 or so, that I don't wish to deploy as we have some printer models newer than that. Are we out of luck for V4 drivers? I feel like every OEM should be in a rush now to push our V4 drivers.

Hi guys, weird one here.

I need a specific model for a printer (model name/driver name) i.e. EPSON WF-2650, but I have another version of the EPSON.

Does anyone have any resources to start on for this, Google and Bing search both fail to bring anything worthwhile to my attention.

Changing the printer name doesn't work. I might need to swap the driver or change the driver name in a file somewhere. Otherwise a virtual printer (to PDF?) would work if I can somehow spoof the name and model.

Maybe VirtualBox has a way to add a fake printer with a real name/model?

My printer works on fedora, but doesn't on ubuntu, which I noticed while going through my checklist while switching distros. I noticed fedora auto installed a driver named Canon G2000 series - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.3.4 Simplified and ubuntu did generic text only printer. Any idea how do I report this to the devs? Is there a way to copy my driver from fedora to ubuntu? Or being able to select the correct driver in ubuntu itself?

Edit: Woah, thanks for the advice everyone! The install instructions are quite complicated though, so I think I'll stay with fedora for now, until ubuntu devs(patch(?)) thisEdit: Looks like there is infact a driver included in the repos, will look if this works https://packages.ubuntu.com/impish/gimp-gutenprint

Edit: Can confirm sudo apt install printer-driver-gutenprint works, and installs the required driver. Should I post this solution in a new thread?

Here is a guide on how to deploy printer drivers to local machines via pnputil.exe. This can help with the latest PrintNightmare issue where users no longer have the ability to install printer drivers automatically from print servers. I also include how to deal with some printer drivers that have certificate issues.

I am assuming the print servers in use are 64-bit Windows machines. As a starting point, printer drivers should be manually installed on a test Windows computer or print server. Here are the locations for print driver info in the Windows registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows x64\Drivers\Version-3
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Print\Environments\Windows x64\Drivers\Version-4

These registry locations list what printer models are assigned to which printer driver. Pay attention to the InfPath key inside each printer listed. This shows the location of the 64-bit printer driver inside C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository. This is helpful if you don’t know what driver is necessary for each printer, like when you inherited an environment. The idea here is to get the driver from the source so you know you have an exact match.

If you know the GUID of the printer driver (seen inside the InfPath key) you can also find the printer drivers nicely packaged up inside .cab files in \\server\printer$ or C:\Windows\System32\spool\drivers. There is a sub-folder for each architecture, with a PCC sub-folder in each one. The PCC sub-folder has a .cab file with each printer driver packaged inside.

Edit: use the Print Management tool in Windows Administrative Tools instead. You can add columns of info to the display so you don’t have to fool with the registry like I did! Oh well I was just trying to learn the real nuts and bolts. You can also try to remove drivers here too.

Copy the printer drivers you want to a central location for deployment and testing. Put each one in a separate sub-folder.

For testing purposes, use a Windows 10 client machine that has never had network printer drivers installed.

If you don’t have that on hand, you can uninstall drivers manually.

1. Go to Control Panel, Devices and Printers, select each network printer one at a time and remove them.
2. Select a built-in printer that is left and select “Printer server properties” in the menu. In the Print Server Properties window, click the Drivers tab. Select “Change Driver Se

Has anyone been able to come up with a relatively easy way to install printer drivers on workstations through SCCM? Because of the print nightmare fiasco and the new print server default behavior, we are trying to find a way to get the drivers on workstations. I tried using the print server export capability but the driver package is very large and it seems to take a very long time to run on a workstation. Another idea that floated around was to create applications for the corresponding printers already on the print server which would install them for users from Software Center. But that also seems to have big overhead in ongoing maintenance and upkeep. Thanks.