I've recently had to set up a printer at a remote location so that users there can print locally when logged into our systems here at our home office. The terminal services servers in question are running Microsoft Server 2003 R2 SP2 x64, and the printer is an HP LaserJet P1505n. There are 3 of these terminal services servers, and all 3 are set up identically. Additionally, there is also one main SQL server (also running the same version of Windows Server) setup with the same print driver.
I've successfully installed the correct (and only) HP-provided PCL5e driver for Server 2003 x64 on all of the servers involved, as well as mapped the driver name out in the NTPrintsubs.inf file.
The users at that location CAN print, with all text coming out just fine. However, any objects on the page (images, etc) just show up as black boxes. Anybody have any idea what I'm doing wrong here? I can't seem to find anything else on the web relating to this issue, so I'm hoping that somebody here can provide the answer I'm looking for.
Thanks.
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What LingerLonger said is probably right... but to be more clear, HP has a Universal Printer Driver (UPD) which doesn't show up on the download page for the P1505n, but will work, and it should solve your problem.
Download it from here:
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/
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by: LingerLongerPosted on 2008-12-09 at 18:11:02ID: 23135746
Have you tried a different driver? another x64 compatible driver that is more Generic, but still in the HP family?
We don't use x64 in our environment, so I cannot say for sure which driver may work, but that has been my experience with various printers not printing right - when in doubt, fall back to the LJ4000 Series or at worst, the LJ4 Series.