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In my network at work, I've been able to use the RPCS drivers on all our Ricoh printer/copiers except for a 2238 color copier. &nbsp;for that one I had to use the more generic PCL driver.
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In my network at work, I've been able to use the RPCS drivers on all our Ricoh printer/copiers except for a 2238 color copier.  for that one I had to use the more generic PCL driver.

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So you just have the RPCS drivers shared off the 2003 server and just connect to it from Vista? Did you have to load anything on the server?
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So you just have the RPCS drivers shared off the 2003 server and just connect to it from Vista? Did you have to load anything on the server?

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I have a Windows 2003 Server and I have all of our network printers shared from it and everything is working great. We will be adding Vista Workstations to the network soon and i am wondering what is the correct way to set the drivers up on the server.<br />
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The printers that we have are all new Ricoh copiers and Ricohs web site does not have the full Vista print driver yet, they just have what they call PCL MiniPort driver.<br />
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What should i do to set this up? Thanks!!!
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I have a Windows 2003 Server and I have all of our network printers shared from it and everything is working great. We will be adding Vista Workstations to the network soon and i am wondering what is the correct way to set the drivers up on the server.

The printers that we have are all new Ricoh copiers and Ricohs web site does not have the full Vista print driver yet, they just have what they call PCL MiniPort driver.

What should i do to set this up? Thanks!!!

Vista printing on Windows 2003 Print Server

Windows Vista is an operating system created by Microsoft as the successor to Windows XP. It was intended for PCs, workstations and laptops, and shares the same code base as its successor, Windows 7. New features included an updated graphical user interface (GUI) and visual style dubbed Aero, a new search component called Windows Search, redesigned networking, audio, print and display subsystems, and new multimedia tools. Vista aimed to increase the level of communication between machines on a home network, using peer-to-peer technology to simplify sharing files and media between computers and devices. Windows Vista included version 3.0 of the .NET Framework, allowing software developers to write applications without traditional Windows APIs.

Windows Vista

A printer is a peripheral which makes a persistent human readable representation of graphics or text on paper or similar physical media. Traditional printers are being used more for special purposes, like printing photographs or artwork, and are no longer a must-have peripheral; 3D printing has become an area of intense interest, allowing the creation of physical objects. An image scanner is a device that optically scans images, printed text, handwriting, or an object, and converts it to a digital image. Hand-held scanners, where the device is moved by hand, have evolved from text scanning "wands" to 3D scanners used for industrial design, reverse engineering, test and measurement, orthotics, gaming and other applications.

Printers and Scanners

Windows Server 2003 was based on Windows XP and was released in four editions: Web, Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter. It also had derivative versions for clusters, storage and Microsoft’s Small Business Server. Important upgrades included integrating Internet Information Services (IIS), improvements to Active Directory (AD) and Group Policy (GP), and the migration to Automated System Recovery (ASR).