How are we deploying printers now?

[chazzy2501]

How are we deploying printers these days?

 

ok, I've been lucky that I'd created a deploy image that is so old it predates the printer deployment "fix" so as long as printers are added before the Os updates it's all good.

 

BUT I can't do this forever and some devices have a need for new printers.. Sharp Printers and mode4 drivers are the universal ones that I've never got to work properly.

 

So if I want to deploy a mode 3 printer driver and auto add a printer for pupils how do we do this?

[mavhc]

You can install drivers with a local startup script calling pnputil /a \\server\file.inf

[mrbios]

Personally I'm using papercut print deploy with direct print. However i also include the relevant printer drivers (of which we only have two) in my sccm task sequence.

[Boredguy]

We're using https://katystech.blog/on-prem/powershell-printer-script

[rogerdnixon]

To Windows - Papercut Print Deploy. Most other things Papercut Mobility Print.

[altecsole]

We use a PowerShell script that runs at logon. It reads printers from a CSV file, and adds them and sets the default printer. We also have a script that runs at logoff, to remove the printer. Very occasionaly it fails, but not enough for it to be an issue.

[TechMonkey]

To those using Papercut Print Deploy, is that to domain machines or Intune? We keep getting a permissions issue for staff so the printer won't deploy. Manually it works, but fails for print deploy. Very odd.

[mrbios]

To those using Papercut Print Deploy, is that to domain machines or Intune? We keep getting a permissions issue for staff so the printer won't deploy. Manually it works, but fails for print deploy. Very odd.

 

Domain machines for me. Drivers only install via print deploy for direct print deployments though. I do also deploy a shared print queue (secure print) from our print server still to all staff, but the driver still trys to pull from the server when you deploy that way...... so what i did to get around that was make a fake printer with the same driver as the secure print queue, named it "ignore me" and deployed that if i ever need to update the driver on machines.