froggyliver Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 I have a shared printer on Windows Server 2008. ON the server I have set the printer preferences to what I need for a particular department and then used GPO to push that printer to those department computer (in a test environment). The printer preference is not saved. I need this to be saved or else I will have to go computer-to-computer which is not really an option. How can I get this shared printer preferences to carry over to user's computers? Any help is greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aergan Posted December 9, 2014 Share Posted December 9, 2014 Tried setting the printer defaults as opposed to the printer preferences? You'll find the behavior of what you want will vary greatly from driver to driver, protocol to protocol and manufacturer to manufacturer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggyliver Posted December 9, 2014 Author Share Posted December 9, 2014 Aergan, on 09 Dec 2014 - 10:05, said: Tried setting the printer defaults as opposed to the printer preferences? You'll find the behavior of what you want will vary greatly from driver to driver, protocol to protocol and manufacturer to manufacturer. Yes I have tried with the Printer Defaults with no luck for the actual preference I am trying to save. I can't seem to find anything helpful on Google either. I have contacted the printer manufacturer, but I have my doubts about their help. On a Xerox support page they were speaking about a printer preference user file (xml I think) that could be used. I can't find anything like that for this Konica Minolta. It sounds like just what you are saying on differences between manufacturers and drivers and such. Hopefully I will find something to work with. Specifically I am trying to save department codes to the printer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted December 9, 2014 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2014 ON the server, in the printer properties, you have the preferences in the general tab and you have printing defaults in the advanced tab. If you change it in the advanced tab, this defines the defaults for all users who connect to that printer share (you could change it in both places if you really wanted to). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggyliver Posted December 9, 2014 Author Share Posted December 9, 2014 sc302, on 09 Dec 2014 - 10:19, said:ON the server you have the preferences in the general tab and you have printing defaults in the advanced tab. If you change it in the advanced tab, this defines the defaults for all users who connect to that printer share (you could change it in both places if you really wanted to). I tried defining it in the Printing Defaults area, but for this setting I seemed to not carry over. I will do another test tonight just to be certain. Thanks. What about the printer Config File? It is a DLL. Would I be able to modify that and have that carry settings or preferences over to users? Maybe I am barking up the wrong tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted December 9, 2014 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2014 lets try a different approach...what is it exactly that you are trying to change? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggyliver Posted December 9, 2014 Author Share Posted December 9, 2014 sc302, on 09 Dec 2014 - 10:23, said:lets try a different approach...what is it exactly that you are trying to change? So we are needing to track department printing numbers. Our Konica Minolta rep told us this can be done by their Account Track option. From this you can set a code to be required in order to print. On the printer you set department names and codes. In order to automate this and not have users have to enter their code every time they print (or use other department's codes) I have created shared printers for the different departments with that department's code saved in the printer preferences under Basic, Account Track button. To test I just connected to a test computer and added the shared printer to the computer. I checked the Account Track area and didn't see the code or **** listed so I assumed the code did not save. Perhaps it just doesn't show it is saved for security. Once I enable the Account Track feature on the printer it requires it for all printing so I have to test at night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted December 9, 2014 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2014 try this, doesn't look like it would be stored with the printer preferences information. http://www.thenoccave.com/2011/07/17/konica-minolta-deploy-account-tracking-from-group-policy/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggyliver Posted December 9, 2014 Author Share Posted December 9, 2014 sc302, on 09 Dec 2014 - 11:43, said: try this, doesn't look like it would be stored with the printer preferences information. http://www.thenoccave.com/2011/07/17/konica-minolta-deploy-account-tracking-from-group-policy/ Very interesting. Totally different way of going about it, but it might work. I'll look into that more. Thank you. Another possible option is a Driver Packaging program I found from Konica Minolta. It looks like it may compile printer drivers with custom saved preferences or a CSV file that contains the preferences. I know for sure that a shared printer driver could carry over the user's computer. The problem I am running into with it is the documentation really sucks. :) http://www.biz.konicaminolta.com/solutions/ps_utilities/driverpackaging.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sc302 Veteran Posted December 9, 2014 Veteran Share Posted December 9, 2014 With the option you linked to, it is no longer a shared printer off of a server more of a network printer that sits on the network. Either way can work, it is how you want to implement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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