HP 6720t Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper
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- HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 1
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 - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 2
• Plug-and-Play support for selected printers in the XPe or WES platforms • Smaller installed disk space footprint • Available only as a PCL5 driver at this time Pre-requisites • HP Thin Client or HP Mobile Thin Client running an XPe or WES image • The installation procedure requires about 50MB - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 3
help files. Please go to the "Software & driver downloads" section within thin client page for downloading this add-on. For detailed specification, other downloads and documentation about the original UPD visit the website http://www.hp.com/go/upd. Installing the add-on For information regarding the - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 4
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 - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 5
such that printing from applications running on the thin client works. With that pre-requisite satisfied, there are specific considerations for Microsoft Remote Desktop and Citrix Presentation Server as follow: Microsoft Terminal Services When a client connects to a Windows 2003 Server Terminal - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 6
the configuration instructions. Support for specific environments Support for VDI/CCI environments In many regards, printing over VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) or CCI (Consolidated Client Infrastructure) provides the same experience of printing over a Microsoft Terminal Services session. In - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 7
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 - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 8
installation and configuration will be manual, and there's no guarantee that it will behave correctly locally attached. Also notice that for supported all-in-one devices, only the printer component is supported. Scanning and faxing capabilities are not supported by the UDP for Thin Clients HP - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 9
use the UPD for Thin Clients driver by executing the steps that follow: 1 - On the first step of the "Found New Hardware Wizard", select the option "No, not at this time" and click "Next": 2 - On the second wizard step, shown below, select "Install from a list of specific location (Advanced)" and - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 10
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" as the - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 11
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 - Once the installation is complete, click "Finish" to close - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 12
detailed above. If the printer is not explicitly supported by the driver, automatic installation will fail and it will be necessary to select of these devices supported by this add-on is the printing component. When you plug a supported MFP device to a USB port, such as the HP LaserJet 3050, you - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 13
EWF is enabled (the default and recommended setting), all the manual configuration performed in the steps described above will be lost the next time the thin client is power-cycled or restarted, unless the changes are committed to the flash disk. The Appendix C gives some options for committing the - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 14
Thin Clients or not using the HP Universal Printing PCL5 driver on the Citrix Server because the driver name was modified to be the same as the original UPD. For more information on this subject please refer to the Citrix support in its default configuration this service is turned off on managed - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 15
Desktop or Citrix environment, has the ability to configure itself according to the actual configuration of the printer by communicating directly with the printer. Currently, the UPD installed on the server and used as fallback driver the Thin Client there is normally also the dynamic queue "HP - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 16
be prompted to install the printer's drivers locally. This is highly unwanted on the thin client because of possible driver compatibility issues and the disk size occupied by large files. Likewise, if a printer in the thin client configured with the UPD for Thin Clients driver is shared and another - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 17
Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon Values: AltDefaultDomainName, AutoLogonDomain and DefaultDomainName 17 - HP 6720t | Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver - White Paper - Page 18
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
Thin Client Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver
Introduction
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Pre-requisites
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Printing with HP Thin Clients
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The HP Universal Print Driver for Thin Clients add-on
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Installing the add-on
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Uninstalling the add-on
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Printing to locally-attached printers
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Printing to network-attached printers
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Firewall settings
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Printing over an RDP/ICA remote session
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Microsoft Terminal Services
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Driver mapping
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Citrix Presentation Server
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Support for specific environments
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Support for VDI/CCI environments
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Support for HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS)
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ThinPrint .print Desktop Engine
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Appendix A: Supported printers
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Appendix B: Manual plug-and-play installation of supported printers
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Appendix C: Allowing an end-user to commit the Enhanced Write Filter (EWF)
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Appendix D: Configuring printer mappings under Citrix
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Appendix E: Special Offers Service
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Appendix F: Known issues
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