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Universal Print for BYOD and Contractor printers
Can we have a new role that is one-time use for adding one printer to UP? Many large organizations have remote workers that already have a printer (e.g. employees, contractors or even franchisees). These organizations want to allow users to print on their own existing (personal) printer but have visibility and management of their print jobs. They want to re-use these existing assets to be more environmentally friendly and be more cost effective. This is especially common for organizations using Azure Virtual Desktop or Windows 365. One way to achieve this is to use the UP connector and convert any BYOD attached printer to a UP one. Yes, this will also require support for Windows 11 Home BYOD also, but let's address the contractor Windows 11 Pro devices first. The challenge is it requires Printer Administrator or Global Admin privileges to install the UP connector, and organizations will not give end users this access. The alternative is to do the old school method of setting up a "managed printer" and shipping it to the end user, but then there is no re-use of existing printers and there is even more management overhead.Universal Print available for Microsoft 365 Business Premium and F3!
Starting today, Microsoft 365 Business Premium and F3 subscriptions can add the preview and start using Universal Print. To learn more read accessing the Universal Print public preview for step-by-step instructions, support links, and FAQ. And don’t forget to participate in discussions and share your ideas and feature requests with us as you try it out. We are in the Tech Community too, so let us know how it goes! The Universal Print Team
Very Frustrating that MS says Universal Print connector is available in preview but it is not
I spoke to a Microsoft tech - showed him the docs where it says Universal Print connector is in preview but it really isn't. If anyone knows a way to accomplish printing besides send to eprint or combo PAC and PAD and no third party connector, I'm all ears. Documentation below leads you to believe you can do it:
How do you implement the "Printer Technician" role?
Within the documentation, there is brief mention of the existence of the "Printer Technician" role and that it can be delegated to manage certain printers. However, I've yet to find documentation or any configuration within the Universal Print portal to actual make use of it. Where is the documentation and how do we delegate management to a "Printer Technician"?
Ricoh printer not printing jobs larger than 20Mb
New Ricoh C4510 Printer... smaller documents prints perfectly. The only information about failed job is a "Aborted" state in the universal print job list We are using the integrated Ricoh universal print connector integrated in the machine ("App for universal print" (Microsoft Universal Print Application | Ricoh USA | Ricoh USA) We have other two konica printers that can print the same print job perfectly (connected to universal print using the konica integrated app) Any help? ThanksUniversal Print for not Domain Joined Windows Computer
We are currently in the process of making Universal Print available at our University. Administrative Staff and Faculty Members can already benefit from UP - especially sending print jobs while users are not connected to our core network is much appreciated. Computer for these users are managed by Intune and member of our domain. Roll-Out happened with Intune Device Configuration and is working mostly well. Our Students come with their own personal/private computer (BYOD). These devices are NOT managed by Intune and are NOT member of our Windows Domain. When they come with an Apple macOS device, they can easily install "Universal Print" from Apple App Store and are ready to got - perfect. BUT, when my students come with a Microsoft Windows computer, they cannot take advantage of UP, because UP would only work, if they login to Windows with their University M365 account. It is ridiculous, that Microsoft punish users of their own operating system harder then Apple macOS users. Have anyone found a solution for this type of scenario? I already added a feature request: Universal Print App for not Domain Joined Windows Users Best regards Daniel
Universal Print queries
Some simple queries but just wanted some clarification before confirming with the customer. Connector for printers that aren't cloud ready, is it accurate that this is included in the license and there is no additional cost for this? Zebra printers with lots of different label sizes, how user friendly is this set up? Jobs to be very clear if an operator prints a label but wants 99 of that label, this is classified as one job?File >Print experience from 365 web apps (other than Excel)
Are there plans to bring the same File >Print experience from the Excel web app to the other 365 web apps (e.g. Word) for printing to universal print cloud printers? Choosing the print option from Excel produces a sidebar with a drop-down selector that shows every Universal printer the user has access to. There's no need to add the printer to the host OS first. In contrast, choosing File >Print from the Word web app renders a PDF and then uses the browser's native print UI to select from a choice of local-only printers. There is no option to access cloud printers unless they've first been added to the local system. On a Windows device this is merely an inconvenience but on a ChromeOS device this means the difference between being able to print and not. There is a work around available, you can use the OneDrive web client to print a Word document. The OneDrive web client does at least offer the ability to search for (and print to) any the Universal printers you have access to, and does not first require they be configured as local printer. But the UI is objectively worse than the Excel print UI which will show you your entire list of available printers. The OneDrive web client requires that you know a portion of the device name to first perform a search for it. The Word web app doesn't even give you that option, there's no option to print to a cloud printer. The Excel print UI needs to be incorporated into any/all of the 365 web apps that support printing.Universal printer says installed, but not in printer list
Hi, I had a universal printer but change the properties to colour. So I deleted the printer on a device to re add but now I cannot add it back, it reports its installed but does not appear in the printer list. Any ideas? tried looking at registry keys to remove but no luck.
