Local Printing/Printer Connected to Workstation not working in Remote Desktop (RDP and SPICE)
Product Line: VERDE
ISSUE:
Printers attached to the workstation and the VDI/Image is Windows 10 or Windows 8.1, printing does not function. Following are step to fix this issue:
Solution:
The Verde Team has found a
‘fix’ for both Windows 8.1 Pro N and Windows 10, to properly ‘inherit’ the
local Printer driver of the redirected printer for your Bar code printer issue.
Figure
A (see ‘Printer Properties’ in
virtual Destkop)
Steps:
- Check-out Gold image
- Open Control Panel -> Devices and Printers
- ADD a Generic / Text Only printer on LPT1 (creates the Printer Driver)
- Close Control Panel
- Launch ‘gpedit.msc’ from the ‘Run’ command
- Open Computer Config -> Admin Templates -> Windows Components -> Remote Desktop Services -> RD Session Host -> Printer Redirection
- Edit the setting: Use Remote Desktop Easy Print printer driver first
- Change this to ‘Disabled’
- Shutdown the Gold image and do a ‘Check-in’
- Launch Verde Client and select this Gold image
- Click ‘Actions’ – ‘Revert’ to ensure the latest version of the Gold image is being used
- Click ‘Connect to Desktop’ and test the printer
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