Any plans to support advanced finishing options such as duplex and stapling? This is currently a showstopper. Some users are even reporting letter is the only paper size option.
I am currently testing Universal Print with Intune for my client. Although the printer is discoverable in my Azure environment, the installable options are not available (hole punch, staple, extra trays, duplex, etc). I also do not have the ability to configure any centralised options (b/w 2-sided, etc)
This is a big set back for this new product. Are there any plans to include these for the UP driver? Or a feature to enable using the host driver via the connector?
Third-party Printix already have these features available
Is there any news on this, we have the same problem in several sites?
We are using mainly Ricoh IMC3000 4500 MFDs with stapler, binders and folders, on windows 11 clients.
We are trying to be serverless and adopt Azure UP with third party Print management server in Azure but this is proving a limiting factor and a step down in our users experience as opposed to direct print to a local print server.
We like the ease of adding users and print queue deployment using UP but if many of the device features aren't available.
With the native Microsoft print connector on a VM in Azure and Azure UP we can get the stapler option to appear on HP devices as a test but nothing else.
@lee_collins, I recommend looking into Ricoh's PrintUp app which offers Ricoh printer models that support the app the ability to natively connect to Universal Print. Ricoh offers a configuration guide at their Support and Downloads | Ricoh USA (ricoh-usa.com).
Thanks for the tip Jimmy, we use PUP on Ricoh devices and we also have Papercut to do "show back" reporting on consumption, but still don't get the special features in the IPP driver. If we were to delete the Universal print delivered Queue and set up each printer queue for each Ricoh device (or deploy them through Intune configuration profiles) would this not remove the simplicity of MS365 experience of simply logging in and the user getting one virtual printer to print to and collect from any device the cloud print servers list. Would we also not lose the consumption of paper and toner reporting that papercut gives us as the devices would be printing "directly to the Richo device?
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