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How to share the Printer settings to share all users?
In Windows 10, I log in as a domain user and installing the printer and configure the printer settings. Driver installed on each machine not shared with other machines. Same settings need to be applied to all the user's login in that machines.
How do I share the printer settings with all the users?
How do I share the printer settings with all the users?
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TO the above since it is a Domain based system, you can use a GPO in conjunction with GPP settings to control/apply uniform settings to the users.
The most uniform is to as was suggested by Nick, configure a server as a print server that will manage the print jobs being sent to the printer.
Then using GPO/GPP push the printer to the users and set the settings..
your comment lacks detail as to what settings you wish to uniformly apply to all users. The issue is further complicated since your installation of the printer occurs as a standard domain user at which point as Fred and John pointed out, the installed printer effectively became a per user configuration.
The most uniform is to as was suggested by Nick, configure a server as a print server that will manage the print jobs being sent to the printer.
Then using GPO/GPP push the printer to the users and set the settings..
your comment lacks detail as to what settings you wish to uniformly apply to all users. The issue is further complicated since your installation of the printer occurs as a standard domain user at which point as Fred and John pointed out, the installed printer effectively became a per user configuration.
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i would like to set default printer and page height & width settings.
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GPP for the default printer is useful in the environment if you have only one printer and users frequently are changing or sharing all desktops. If you would like to maintain the printer from a central location then install the printer on the server or one of the desktops and share it. Configure the printer settings as you wish and then you can decide ether user to instal it manually or you can force it as default printer through GP.
To set defaults, people often go to Printer Properties > Printing Preferences on the server. That does not make them the default. Instead, go to Printer Properties and click the Advanced tab. Then click the Printing Defaults button. The window will look the same as Printing Preferences. Set your defaults there and click OK. Now click the General tab, the Preferences button, and make sure your defaults show there.
You do need to remember that some applications, like Word, store paper settings in the document. If you have an old document and open it, the paper settings that it was created with will still apply. If you want to change it, you need to go to Page Setup. If you change the size, Word will re-paginate the document. Other applications e.g. Acrobat will not do that. Instead Acrobat lets you decide how to scale the document to the new paper size. It's up to the application to decide how to match document and paper size.
You do need to remember that some applications, like Word, store paper settings in the document. If you have an old document and open it, the paper settings that it was created with will still apply. If you want to change it, you need to go to Page Setup. If you change the size, Word will re-paginate the document. Other applications e.g. Acrobat will not do that. Instead Acrobat lets you decide how to scale the document to the new paper size. It's up to the application to decide how to match document and paper size.
I would like to set default printer and page height & width settings.
On modern printers, that is normally controlled by application. One application may use Legal and another may use Letter. Setting this outside of the application can lead to issues.
On modern printers, that is normally controlled by application. One application may use Legal and another may use Letter. Setting this outside of the application can lead to issues.
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John Hurst: In this scenario i don't have an application to control the printer settings. Each user needs to go to printer properties and set all these settings. i gave only two settings but they need to change some other settings too.
Yes users need to control their own printer settings. That is completely normal
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When you go to the printer Properties, you will find tab Sharing. You can share the printer only with local administrator permissions. Select share this printer and List in the directory. Go to additional drivers and add 64 or 32-bit driver (opposite of your PC).
From other desktop go to Devices and Printers, Add printer, Network printer and search for printers, Search for the printer if it's not listed.