RDS Print Redirection Issue

Question

I have Print Redirection issue on new RDS 2022 Servers; as the printers are attached locally to the clinet machines and its working but the output of the print for most of the remoteApp published through RDS is shffited to the right side of the page (around 1 cm of data is cut off), this issue was not happening on RDS 2012 R2 servers,

Also the user have to select the defult printer manually each time (not selected automatically).

Noting that the RDS 2022 servers are fully windows updates.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hello,

Please check the driver used on the Server side. Generally, the printer will be redirected to the Remote Session using the driver Remote Easy Print which is preinstalled in all Windows Servers

Group Policy must be correctly set to enable Remote Easy Print on the Server. The policy location is “Computer Configuration -> Administrative templates -Windows Components -> Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Session Host -> Printer Redirection”.

The setting “Use Remote Desktop Easy Print printer driver first” must be set to “Enabled” for Remote Easy Print redirection, and it has to be “Disabled” for Legacy Print. For “Not configured”, Easy Print is chosen by default.

If the policy mentioned is disabled, the Remote Sessions established will use the print driver set in the client machine as preference, the print jobs can be affected with issues such as slowness, graphics, and others since some drivers might not be functional under Remote Session configurations.

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Answer 2

Is there any new update?

Answer 3

Hi,Does this work better after you updated the policiesy above and used the vendor driver rather than the Microsoft driver ?

Answer 4

Hello,

Try rendering the print job on the client-side Client-Side Rendering - Windows drivers | Microsoft Learn

CSR is enabled when "Render print jobs on client computers" is checked on the Share tab for the print queue on the server. The registry key for this option is

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Print\Printers<printer>\PrinterDriverData

EMFDespoolingSetting

Value = 0 - "Render print jobs on client computers" is enabled (CSR)

Value - 1 - "Render print jobs on client computers" is disabled (SSR)

Answer 5

This should be applied on the client side or server (RDSH) side?