Centrally managed drivers

[Don Campbell]

We are using centralized copier/printers. Having the ability to use the manufacturer driver would give access to special functions like stapling/sorting that is not exposed in a universal driver.

[seblen]

@Rani_Abdellatif Can you tell us why Its not planned? 

[Rani_Abdellatif]

Unlike other cloud print solutions, Universal Print is driverless. It's built on the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) from the PWG. Users don't connect to printers directly. They instead connect to the Universal Print cloud service that communicates using IPP. The cloud service also communicates with printers (or print connectors) using IPP. No driver needs to be installed on the Windows client where users add their printers. One major design goal for Universal Print is to make driver management a thing of the past. While centrally managing drivers is necessary for other cloud print products, it's not required for Universal Print.

[Saurabh_Bansal]

Just to add to what @Rani_Abdellatif said - We are working with partners to add print specific customizations and following efforts are underway:

1. IPP and MOPRIA covers a large range of printer options which sufficiently cover most printers. Universal Print ready printers that connect to Universal Print already leverage IPP.
2. Universal Print offer Graph APIs through which partners can integrate their scenarios in a service-to-service model.
3. For user facing specific customizations for printers, partners can build Print Support Applications (PSA) - Print support app design guide - Windows drivers | Microsoft Docs

Please work with your OEM/partner to understand their roadmap in terms of enhancing their integrations for driverless and serverless printing (especially with Universal Print).

Thanks,

Saurabh