Papercut Hive - The horror story you've been waiting for?

[supportman]

14 hours ago, iainhs said:

As of December 2025 doesn't seem to be any progress from Papercut Hive regarding shared pc installs.. We have rolled this out to two sites and its working great for staff as they have 1:1 devices but for students it simply doesn't work - we've had to put in some small unmanaged network printers.

 

It's a shame because other than that it's really good. Has anyone got a reliable method of how to deploy the hive user client reliably through Intune? The company that resells us the product gave us a script to package with the Hive user client but it only works a quarter of the time and then randomly asks users to enter a linking code?

That's a shame, we went with Kyocera Cloud Print for our system and its been fantastic.

 

Works perfectly with shared accounts and is very reliable with no drivers needed to be installed. The only thing it misses is an MSI to roll out rather than an executable installer.

 

Was so nice to get rid of our legacy papercut server.

Edited December 3, 2025 by supportman

[Sylv3r]

14 hours ago, iainhs said:

As of December 2025 doesn't seem to be any progress from Papercut Hive regarding shared pc installs.. We have rolled this out to two sites and its working great for staff as they have 1:1 devices but for students it simply doesn't work - we've had to put in some small unmanaged network printers.

 

It's a shame because other than that it's really good. Has anyone got a reliable method of how to deploy the hive user client reliably through Intune? The company that resells us the product gave us a script to package with the Hive user client but it only works a quarter of the time and then randomly asks users to enter a linking code?

We had all those issues right at the start and the whole issue of onboarding children was a right pain - but to be honest, since September we've rolled Hive out via InTune to 18 primaries and our HQ building and we couldn't be happier with the process now.

[GaryPad]

On 03/12/2025 at 08:42, supportman said:

That's a shame, we went with Kyocera Cloud Print for our system and its been fantastic.

 

Works perfectly with shared accounts and is very reliable with no drivers needed to be installed. The only thing it misses is an MSI to roll out rather than an executable installer.

 

Was so nice to get rid of our legacy papercut server.

EXE to MSI has a free version if you still want an MSI.