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RickWijn
Copper Contributor
Oct 05, 2021

Azure Universal Print drivers

Hi all,   I've configured the Universal Print in Azure via thise step-by-step configuration: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/step-by-step-configure-and-manage-microsoft-univ...
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RickWijn
Copper Contributor
Oct 19, 2021
Thanks for your reply. You would expect that this should work anyway right?

Rick
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kismat
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Oct 21, 2021

RickWijn Frankly yes but then that would just be too convenient for us as admins! ha ha

 

Anyway, I am playing around with a few things and if you like I can post back here if I manage to make any meaningful progress that might be of any help to you.

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    RickWijn
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    Oct 22, 2021

    kismat Yes, that would be great! Let's stay in touch 🙂

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      Saurabh_Bansal
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      Oct 29, 2021

      RickWijn / kismat I understand your concerns here. However, Universal Print and traditional print drivers work on different technologies. Universal Print prints using PWG's standard IPP protocol eliminating the need for drivers. Printer manufacturers are developing firmwares that work with Universal Print using the IPP protocol.

       

      Universal Print connector is a solution that tries to fill-in the gap until all printers can support Universal Print. It does the translation of driver model to IPP and this translation may vary depending on the quality of driver. I explained this in reply to another post - https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/universal-print-discussions/universal-print-konica-minolta-limited-printing-preferences/td-p/2796882.

       

      For Ricoh specifically, we have seen options getting dropped. Please reach out to Microsoft Support as some customizations may be able to help you.

       

      For Universal Print printers, we do not recommend changing print drivers of user devices. Our goal is to get rid of drivers on user devices completely :).

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        kismat
        Brass Contributor
        Oct 30, 2021

        Hi Saurabh_Bansal 

         

        Thank you very much for posting in to this thread. I'm very interested in this comment you made:

         

        'For Ricoh specifically, we have seen options getting dropped.'

         

        I, and I'm sure RickWijn also, would really appreciate it if you wouldn't mind elaborating on this please? The reason I ask is that from what I can see the last thing that Ricoh put out officially about support for Universal Print was this post in February- Ricoh is adding support for Universal Print to MFP devices. They have been pretty silent since then!

         

        As things stand for me I have been playing around with Windows 11 to try and see if one particular function would be added (PIN printing) but this was negative. I am about to look to getting a few devices firmware updated to see if this will resolve the issue however if there is a possibility that this won't then I don't want to waste time and would rather be looking at other alternatives. I do appreciate your advice of contacting Microsoft Support and will keep this as an option in the back pocket in case all else fails as I would rather be able to get what I see as basic features working properly without the need for custom configurations for our environment.

         

        Thanks in advance and I await your reply.

         

        Kismat

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