Windows 7 printing problem

[BJG]

This is a fairly basic problem, but I'm posting here as I'm hoping to find a quick fix.

 

In one of the IT Rooms the PCs kept randomly dropping the printer I'd deployed via group policy, and in the end I installed it manually in the way I'd always used for Windows XP - log on as admin, use "Add a local printer", and create a new local port of the form \\server-name\printer-share.

 

This works fine when you log on as the admin, and other users can see it - but if anyone else tries printing to it it just sits in the print queue with "Error - printing". I've tried making a test student a local admin, adding all permissions for everyone in the printer's Security tab, and it still doesn't work.

 

Where am I going wrong here? Do I really have to use some logon script or something? Or would you expect this to work, in which case I could try deleting it off the server and adding again etc...?

Edited July 8, 2013 by BJG

[Alkaline]

Are you sure its not driver related?

[AJWhite1970]

On the print server, open the printer in question, select Advanced and Print Processor and make sure it's set to "Winprint - Raw"

 

I've seen numerous distribution problems with standard users when this is set to anything else

Andrew

[BJG]

Are you sure its not driver related?

 

*edit*

 

Very possibly. Spent a bit more time on it, but it was generally being a PITA so I ended up bypassing the print server and just adding it on a TCP/IP port on each machine. Seems to be working now, so that should see things through to the end of term anyway.

 

Thanks for your input folks.

Edited July 8, 2013 by BJG