HP 2533t - Compaq Mobile Thin Client Printing Manual
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Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver
Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 2
Pre-requisites .................................................................................................................................. 2
Printing with HP Thin Clients ............................................................................................................. 3
The HP Universal Print Driver for Thin Clients add-on ......................................................................... 3
Installing the add-on .................................................................................................................... 3
Uninstalling the add-on ................................................................................................................. 3
Printing to locally-attached printers ................................................................................................. 3
Printing to network-attached printers ............................................................................................... 4
Firewall settings ....................................................................................................................... 5
Printing over an RDP/ICA remote session ........................................................................................ 5
Microsoft Terminal Services ....................................................................................................... 5
Driver mapping ....................................................................................................................... 5
Citrix Presentation Server .......................................................................................................... 6
Support for specific environments ................................................................................................... 6
Support for VDI/CCI environments .............................................................................................. 6
Support for HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS)........................................................................... 7
ThinPrint .print Desktop Engine ................................................................................................... 7
Appendix A: Supported printers ........................................................................................................ 8
Appendix B: Manual plug-and-play installation of supported printers ....................................................... 9
Appendix C: Allowing an end-user to commit the Enhanced Write Filter (EWF) ........................................ 13
Appendix D: Configuring printer mappings under Citrix ...................................................................... 14
Appendix E: Special Offers Service ................................................................................................. 14
Appendix F: Known issues .............................................................................................................. 15
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Page 1: Table Of Contents
Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver Introduction ........................... 2 Pre-requisites ..........................2 Printing with HP Thin Clients ......................3 The HP Universal Print Driver for Thin Clients add-on ................. 3 Installing the add-on ........................3 Uninstalling the add-on ......................... 3 Printing to locally-attached printers .................... -
Page 2: Introduction
Introduction Thin clients are primarily designed: • For use with terminal sessions using Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). • For use with terminal sessions using Citrix Independent Computing Architecture (ICA). • And/or as green screen terminal replacements. Due to this design goal, HP thin clients provide limited out-of-the-box local printing support for the wide range of printers available today. -
Page 3: Printing With Hp Thin Clients
Printing with HP Thin Clients The idea of this new solution is, instead of installing one driver for each printer connected to your thin client, to install the UPD for Thin clients, which supports a wide range of HP printers (please check the appendix A to review the list of supported printers). -
Page 4: Printing To Network-Attached Printers
2. If the printer is not supported locally-attached, it won’t be installed automatically and the “New Hardware Found” wizard will pop-up. The user may still go through and manually assign the driver named “HP Universal Printing for Thin Clients” to this printer, however printers that are not supported locally-attached have not been tested and asserted to work under these circumstances and may work incorrectly or not at all. -
Page 5: Firewall Settings
The other option for configuring a network-attached printer is to use the “Add Printer” wizard to locate the printer, however this is a much more complex task for an end-user to perform, since it requires knowledge of printer ports, TCP/IP ports, printer drivers and the fact that even though the printer is not directly connected to the system, the user must select the “local printer”... -
Page 6: Citrix Presentation Server
On the Remote Desktop server machine, two registry values configure string mapping of driver’s names under Terminal Services. In order to enable driver mapping, locate the following registry key: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\Wds\rdpwd Under rdpwd add the following two values: Name: PrinterMappingINFName, Type: REG_SZ Name: PrinterMappingINFSection, Type: REG_SZ On PrinterMappingINFName, place the fully-qualified pathname for the INF file storing print driver mappings, such as c:\windows\inf\printsubs.inf;... -
Page 7: Support For Hp Remote Graphics Software (Rgs)
Support for HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) The UPD for Thin Clients has been tested to work correctly with HP Remote Graphics Software versions 5.x, with the original UPD installed on the sender’s desktop, with and without USB forwarding between sender and receiver enabled. ThinPrint .print Desktop Engine The UPD for Thin Clients has been tested to work with ThinPrint’s .print Desktop Engine v7.0 32 b its. -
Page 8: Appendix A: Supported Printers
Appendix A: Supported printers This section lists the printers that are currently supported for use in conjunction with the printing add- on. There are two categories, network-attached and locally-attached; network-attached refers to printers directly connected to the network, by means of its network interface card; locally-attached refers to printers connected directly to the thin clients via a USB or parallel connection. -
Page 9: Appendix B: Manual Plug-And-Play Installation Of Supported Printers
Printers supported when locally attached The following printers are supported locally-attached to the thin client via a USB or parallel connection, and will be detected and installed automatically via plug-and-play: Supported with plug and play 1320 series 2420 series 2605 series 2700 series 3050 AiO 3052 AiO... - Page 10 3 – On the third wizard step, shown below, select “Don’t search. I’ll choose the driver to install” and click “Next”: 4 – On the “Hardware Type” wizard step, select the “Printers” category and click “Next”: 5 – On the “Manufactures and Models” wizard step, select “HP” as the manufacturer and “HP Universal Printing for ThinClient PCL5”...
- Page 11 6 – There will be a warning about this driver possibly not being compatible with the hardware. Click “YES” to confirm that dialog: (and later test the device carefully to ensure compatibility) 7 – Wait for the file copy process to complete: 8 –...
- Page 12 9 – After installation is complete, there will be a new printer queue added to the “printers and faxes” folder: Using the “Add Printer Wizard” dialog Using the “Add Printer Wizard” to add a printer is similar to the process of using the “Found New Hardware”...
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Page 13: Appendix C: Allowing An End-User To Commit The Enhanced Write Filter (Ewf)
These prompts can be ignored and cancelled, as there’s no driver available for these components provided by the printing add-on. For supported printers, the printer component will be installed automatically, and for unsupported printers the procedure outlined in the previous sections can be followed to configure it. -
Page 14: Appendix D: Configuring Printer Mappings Under Citrix
%windir%\system32\ewfmgr.exe c: -commit Place the shortcut into the user’s desktop (or under the start menu), so that when the user needs to commit changes such as a new printer added, all they have to do is click the shortcut. Appendix D: Configuring printer mappings under Citrix Having the Citrix UPD as the fallback driver for client printers under Citrix sessions is the default and generally the recommended configuration. -
Page 15: Appendix F: Known Issues
The Privacy Settings dialog shown above is presented to the user after the first few interactions with the driver/printer, provided the Special Offers Service is enabled (refer to the restrictions above). Selecting “No, do not send this info to HP” disables this feature and no further prompts are shown (may require a commit to the Enhanced Write Filter to preserve changes across a machine restart). - Page 16 For this reason users should be instructed not to use this printer instance redirected over a remote session, or the dynamic queue should be removed from the local “Printers and Faxes” folder on the thin client. If required, it is possible to redirect only the user’s default printer, as described in Microsoft’s Knowledge Base article 911913, available from http://support.microsoft.com/kb/911913 Local spooler limitations...
- Page 17 Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Values: AltDefaultDomainName, AutoLogonDomain and DefaultDomainName...
- Page 18 © Copyright 2007-2009 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.