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What is ricoh enable printer pooling install#

Click on the radio selection next to “Add a local printer or network printer with manual settings” then click on the next button.Click on the Add Printer button at the top then click on the “The printer that I want isn’t listed” link at the bottom of the window that opens.Inside the Remote Desktop connected computer click on the Start button and open Control Panel then open “Devices and Printer”.

What is ricoh enable printer pooling install#

Once connected download and install the needed print driver but do not create the printer itself yet.

Make sure to go back to the General tab and click on save before clicking on the Connect button.

Click on the “More…” button at the bottom then put a check next to the Ports item then click the OK button.

Click on the Start button and open Remote Desktop Connection then click on the “Local Resources” tab.

Click on the Ports tab and put a check next to “Enable printer pooling” and next to the “LPT1:” in the list then click the OK button to finish.

Right click on the network printer that needs to be redirected and choose “Printer Properties”.

Click on the Start button and open Control Panel then open “Devices and Printers”.

Found this little workaround to provide Remote Desktop network printer redirection in the Microsoft forums: Remote Desktop network printer redirection workaround

Found out later indeed they were not able to use the printer successfully due to the inherent issue with network printers across a Remote Desktop Connection. Even after successfully getting them connected to the local workstation and warning them there would be issues with using their network printer at the remote office, they stated it would be just fine. Found myself setting up a client with a remote desktop connection to a local workstation from a remote site to use their Client Management System (CMS).