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Any suggestions on local non USB, Non Bidirectional printers for use on clients for Windows 2003 Terminal Server

I am in the process of setting up a Windows 2003 Terminal Server network for home users and a remote office, both will access via VPN. I've got the basics of client side printing sorted out but there are some limitations in W2003TS, namely it does not support bidirectional printing nor USB port printing which rules out about 90% of current printers. Can anyone recommend a low cost (preferably ink jet or laser) printer that will work on com or LPT port in non-bidirectional mode. I'm in the UK so printers that are available here would be best.

Many thanks

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I think the problem I was having was with the Dell All-in-one software. The terminal server could see the printer fine and appeared to connect to the client's printer but nothing actually printed. Now I suspect that's more to do with the package software than the actual driver.

I looked on the W2003 help file and voila they say that USB printers and bidirectional parallel printers aren't supported! So I went and purchased an HP1015 which works superbly, pretty quick and fairly inexpensive.

Thank you for your help

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I am trying to print on a HP 3740 USB deskjet printer from terminal server. I have followed your advice and installed the internet driver ("3740_enu_win2k_xpinfu.exe") on the server. Locally, the printing works fine.
When I print from the server, the job is well redirected to the local printer but there, jobs hang and remain in the queue. When I look to the printer icon, windows displays: "Printer ready. 0 documents"; in the queue although in the queue the documents are still there with non zero size.
If I uncheck the "enable bidirectional support", documents are deleted from the queue without printing.
The printer is installed locally on a "USB002 virtual printer port for USB".

Thanks for help...