Printer Sharing Limitations

 

OEM Printer Drivers, Licensed “End-User” Printer Drivers and Agent Printers also can be shared over the network. Agent Printers are not available in OEM Printer Drivers.

 

When sharing Black Ice printers over a network, there are some restrictions that must be taken into consideration.

 

·         Shared printers only can be added on operating systems with the same architecture as the host operating system. (32-bit/64-bit). For example if the printer was shared on 64-bit operating system, it can be added only on 64-bit operating systems.

 

·         Avoid of using Environment Variables on shared printers. The environment variables will be substituted on the Host (where the printer was originally shared) where the values may differ from the client’s values.

 

·         While a shared Black Ice Printer Driver is added on a client, the same Black Ice Printer Driver cannot be installed. For example if the ColorPlus Printer Driver for Desktop is added on a Windows 7 64-bit client, then the ColorPlus Printer Driver for Desktop cannot be installed on the client

 

·         The printed output document will be generated on the host computer.

 

For the complete list of which Printer Driver features must be configured on the Client or Host, please see to the table below:

 

Printer Driver Feature

Needs to be configured on the Host or Client

Device settings tab

Paper size (including Custom Paper Sizes)

Client

Fax resolution

Client

Orientation

Client

Graphic Resolution

Client

File formats tab

File format

Client

File format options (For example: PDF settings)

Host*

Color Depth

Client

Save each page as separate file

Client

Generate output in memory

Client

Flip

Client

Invert

Client

Generate text output

Client

Save text position and style

Client

Unicode/Eastern char. support

Client

Mail merge

Client

Disable output file

Client

Photo Quality

Client

Filename Generation tab

Save As Option

Not Available

Filename Generation Methods

Use this prefix and extension

Client

Prefix and extension from the registry

Client, but the registry value will be read on host.

Prefix and extension from the INI File

Client, but the INI file value will be read on host.

Exact filename

Client

Exact filename from the registry

Client, but the registry value will be read on host.

Exact filename from the INI File

Client, but the INI file value will be read on host.

Use the document name

Client

Custom file naming

Client, but variables will be substituted on the host.

Combine/Merge

Client

Output Directory

Client, but variables will be substituted on the host and directory cannot be validated on client.

Group File Options

Client

FTP, SharePoint

Host*

Email Sending

Host*, but only silent email sending is available on shared printers.

Troubleshooting

Host*

Annotation-Header-Footer tab

Annotation

Client, but variables will be substituted on the host.

Header

Host*

Footer

Host*

Start Application tab

Start Application options

Host*, application will run in Session 0, therefore no popup windows or message boxes will not be displayed.

Disable the Messaging Interface

Host*

Open output folder

Not Available

Open printed document

Not Available

Watermark Tab

Every setting on the tab

Host*

Bates Numbering Tab

Every setting on the tab

Host*

Profile Manager Tab

Every setting on the tab

Host*

Redirect Printing Tab

Every setting on the tab

Host*. Print redirection is only available if the printing is redirected to a local printer (the printer is directly connected to the computer) and if the given destination printer saves the printed/output document silently without Save As window.

OCR Tab

Every setting on the tab

Host*

Barcode Tab

Every setting on the tab

Host*

 

*The Host printer must be configured on the Host computer, in the Control Panel > right click on the host Printer > Print Properties > Advanced Tab > Printing Defaults.