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Printer Accounting - how to pass the account data via the cloud printer
Microsoftcarloshenriques - you touch upon an interesting topic. Universal Print relies on the printer's driver on connector to get the printer's capabilities. If you look one level deeper, printer capabilities can be defined by printer drivers using either "standard" attributes as per Windows PrintSchema definitions or "custom" attributes. It depends on driver to driver what approach they take. Sometimes different drivers from same manufacturer can behave differently for the same printer.
Currently, Universal Print supports "standard" attributes only. The attributes you notice have been dropped might have been defined using some custom schema.
Can you try another driver for your printer and check. To change a printer's driver on connector refer to this help page - https://docs.microsoft.com/universal-print/fundamentals/universal-print-updating-printer-driver-howto.
User account code support doesnt exist in Universal Print currently. Can you add it as a feature request so that others can vote on it? One question though - instead of user's account code, does any other attribute like username work?
Saurabh_Bansal - thanks for the reply. I had already tried a different driver without any success, well limited success, I can set the "accounting code" on the print driver that is connected to the "connector" but then everyone prints with the same code.
When you say "Universal Print supports "standard" attributes only. " what are the attributes it supports?
- Saurabh_Bansal
carloshenriques unfortunately account codes are not supported at this point of time. Are there any other options other than account codes that you may be concerned about? What driver are we referring to here?
Print options and the way they are defined depends a lot on how drivers are authored. We are considering how best to guide our customers on evaluating the drivers for Universal Print.
Are there options for colour, stapling, hole punching? Or depends on the driver.
The printer is a Xerox C8055
