Windows 10: Windows 11 - Creating a duplicate printer on purpous, and the new printer doesn't show up +...

Start Menu -> Control PanelView Devices and Printers or Devices and Printers from Small icons Control panel instead, same areaPrinters & ScannersAdd Device.So the scenario is I have PRINTER A already installed, printing on normal paper. Printer A has several trays and I wanted to duplicate this and call it PRINTER A LEGAL PAPER.I install a new printer, same port, same driver, and change the name accordingly.PRINTER A and PRINTER A LEGAL PAPER, are now the same device as far as Windows 11 can tell from this printer setup. I have no idea how to select which printer properties I wanted

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printer won't work on network but will over usb

his printer has a built-in print server.

What you need to know what ip is being give to the printer. Perhaps you can print a status sheet from the printer.

Then Go to printers in control panel

add a new printer

local printer attached, uncheck automatically detect and install PnP printer

create a new port, select standard tcp/ip port

a new window should open and enter the ip there where it says printer name or IP address (port name then should be also be filled as you go)

and pretty much follow the rest of the steps, you will need to install the printer drivers.


These steps is the easy, but not the right way.

The right way is to use the network option on the initial screw and search for the printer server...but that can be tricky to configure.

 

Printer isn´t working after latest update.

After the latest update from Windows, my Canon Pixma ip6600 printer isnt working. In Device Manager it shows up as working properly but when I go to print it isn´t listed as an option in any programs. Troubleshoot suggests it´s a USB 2 printer on a USB
3 port and that that´s the problem but that cant be since it worked fine before the update. I´ve tried to uninstall and plug it back in but that doesn´t work either.

 

Duplicate network printers Windows 10 and Windows 11

Hello,

we need some advice on creating duplicate printers on windows 10 and windows 11 PCs.

We have network Canon printers, PCs with Windows 10 and Windows 11, we manage the printers via the print server (Windows Server 2019) and assign them using GPO. For some users, the printer will be duplicated after some time (week - month - 3months - never).

When duplicating, it happens that the printer is named in capital letters, otherwise everything is identical. If we remove the printer in the standard way, even the original one will stop working. Some printers have never been duplicated before.

These are different printers and different users, some have a problem with it, some do not.

We suspect that it duplicates the printer that the user has set as default, but it does not do it for all users.

What helped:

Stopping the print service, removing the duplicate printer keys - after that everything works for a while

Done:

Reinstalling the print server

Clean installs of both Windows 10 and Windows 11

Creating a special VLAN for printers

Windows does not manage printers

WSD disabled on printers