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Jan_E950
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Apr 28, 2020

Local printers list

Hi, when we implement Universal Print we would like to disable the computers to search for local printers directly, but instead just show printers shared from Universal Print. Now when a user is addi...
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Jimmy_Wu
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May 20, 2020

Jan_E950 are the local printers the ones that are through the on-premise Active Directory and Print Server?  Or, are the local printers more like the ones you find at a home network?

 

If the local printers are through a Print Server, you can try to remove the printer in the directory by unchecking the "List in the directory" option.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HTH,

Jimmy

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Jan_E950
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May 20, 2020

Jimmy_Wu Hi, The computers do not see the on premise AD shared printers, but they show a list of the discovered printers on local subnet like on a home network.

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    Jimmy_Wu
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    May 20, 2020

    Jan_E950, Unfortunately, I'm not aware of a way to disable the local subnet printer discovery functionality within Windows.  Since the local subnet responds much faster, the results are displayed ahead of the response from Universal Print.

     

    Would it be possible to configure the physical printers to stop broadcasting themselves?  For example, turn off AirPrint (Bonjour); Mopria; WSD; Multicast Discovery.  This way the local subnet printer discovery would not find these printers, since the physical printers won't respond to the discovery request.

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