CTX0. 89. 87. 4 - Troubleshooting and Explaining the Citrix Universal Print Driver. Summary. This article explains the Citrix Universal Print Driver (UPD) and provides troubleshooting help.
This article contains information to troubleshoot and Explains the Citrix Universal Print Driver.Citrix tech note CTX089874, last updated Feb 20, 2013. The HP Univeral Print Driver software is an alternative to product-specific print drivers for PC's and Laptops.
The Citrix Universal Printer, originated in Presentation Server 4. Refer to the following: The PCL5c UPD driver, originated in Meta. Frame XP, Feature Release 3, is based on the HP Color Laser.
Jet 4. 50. 0, is 6. The PCL4 universal driver, originated in Meta. Frame XP, Feature Release 2, is the native Windows HP Laser. Jet Series II driver, monochrome, and 3. UPD Naming. Q: Is it possible to change the name of the Universal Print Driver (UPD)? For example: From “HP Color Laser Jet 4. Meta. Frame PCL5c Universal Driver)” to just “Meta.
Frame PCL5c Universal Driver” for demonstration purposes. Changes to the Registry Value: Driver. Alias under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\Universal. Print. Drivers\”Type of Driver” have no effect.
A: The part in parentheses is strictly an annotation added to help administrators identify the UPDs from all of the other Windows printer drivers. This is not actually part of the name. So the actual name of the driver is “HP Color Laser. Jet 4. 50. 0.” This driver is a stock Windows printer driver that comes with Windows by default. The universal drivers are installed and treated like any other Windows print driver.
Meta. Frame XP Feature Release 3 changes the driver list in the Management Console so the universal drivers have a special icon and tag line. Altering the Default Driver for the UPDThe key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Citrix\Universal. Print. Drivers\Value: Driver.
List Data of Type REG_SZ: EMF(Presentation Server 4. PCL4; PS; PCL5c. Example: In Meta.
Learn how a universal print driver can manage multiple manufacturer print drivers in any computing environment with the latest universal print driver software from. Project Taser or UPS Version 2.0. Citrix is already working to extend the universal print server to the next level. To name two but most important features.
Frame XP Feature Release 3, if you remove PCL5c, the printer is mapped as PCL4. Certain Meta. Frame version can toggle this functionality by altering the Feature Release level. Notes: If EMF is removed, restart the Citrix Print Manager Service. A customer was publishing the RDP Client from the Presentation Server 4. Citrix and non- Citrix Terminal Servers.
- The Community has verified that "HP Universal Printer Driver" works with the following Citrix product(s)/version(s).
- My inspritation for this blogpost came from a tweet asking if there's a roadmap for the Citrix Universal Print Server as the feature set is limited.
- How it works. The Citrix Universal Print Server will intercept the Windows Add Printer wizard and map the printer using the masked drivers. If you don’t want to.
Managing printer drivers in Citrix environments have been a pain for a long time. Luckily the Citrix Universal Printer (CUP) solves all these problems leveraging the. Citrix supports a universal printer to which administrators can associate auto-created or session printers. Whenever a user prints to the Citrix Universal Printer. Enable the Citrix Universal Print Server through Citrix Policies. This can. It should show the driver as the Citrix Universal Printer. Like it?
The printers in the second hop were not creating. The creation of the UPD requires that the appropriate feature release is set and the server is obtaining the corresponding feature release license. If these conditions are not in place, an attempt to manually map the UPD printer as outlined in CTX6. Troubleshooting Citrix ICA Printer Autocreation will not show the UPD printer as an option.
Note: Native printers will map. If you leave only PS, no printer is mapped. The “PS” universal driver is intended for use with UNIX Clients, where Postscript is the default printer control language. You do not need a PCL- compatible printer/driver to take advantage of the PCL5c or PCL4 universal printing feature. The PCL interpreter, Pcl.
Win. 32 and Macintosh Clients (version 6. The PCL print streams generated by these server- side drivers are interpreted by our client software, VDSPL3.
N. dll, and rendered locally on the client utilizing the printer drivers and operating system of the client device. To summarize, all the PCL UPDs need a working printer/driver on the client device. Local printers or clients that are unable to support the basic features of the UPD drivers functionality may not print correctly. Presentation Server 4. EMF metafile handler, EMFRENDR. EMF interpreter, VDSPL3.
N. dll. These features are available in the ICA Client for Windows version 9. The EMF handler captures the data of the inbound spool file into the user’s temp directory and launches CPVIEWER. EMF spool files by playing back each record) to preview and print this file.
Known Issues / Limitations. Issues related to the native PCL5c Windows driver that Meta. Frame XP uses, may cause minor corruptions in a limited subset of documents when printed through UPD. However, the version that ships with Windows Server 2. Therefore, it is advisable to have the customer upgrade their Windows 2. Windows Server 2.
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Frame Presentation Server 3. Autocreated/universal print driver (UPD) printers have a smaller print job size on a Meta.
Frame server, which is in PCL4/5c format. The PCL4/5c format is suitable for network transmission because of its small payload.
However, when the print job reaches the client, the print job is rasterized, thus creating a larger print job. In the case of Hewlett- Packard and other native printer drivers, the print job created on the Meta. Frame server is usually in EMF format but is converted to a native printer format on the client.
Depending upon the efficiency and architecture of the native printer driver, the size of the EMF print job may be larger than the native format and vice versa. When using UPD, the following steps occur: The job is created in PCL format on the server by the universal print driver. Data is sent to the client within an ICA virtual channel. PCL data is converted into a bitmap on the client.
The bitmap is spooled on the local printer. The result is that the bitmap image of PCL data in the client printer spooler is larger then the PCL data sent across the network to the client.
This permits optimizing the bandwidth that is available between the client and server, but printing the job with the UPD could be slower when the print job reaches the client. The UPD is best suited for print driver management, bandwidth utilization, and autocreating client printers but does not support special printing features such as double- sided printing. Printer does not Auto- create Using the Universal Print Driver Does removing any third- party printer drivers resolve the issue? If a known server is “working” and one is “broken,” attempt to replicate/import the UPD from the working server to the non- working server. Are the server licensed and the appropriate feature release level set correctly? Ensure the UPD is installed and no policies are preventing the installation of printer drivers. Ensure the Version 7.
Meta. Frame Feature Release 3 UPD and that the Pcl. Ensure the Version 9. Meta. Frame Feature Release 3 UPD and that the EMFRENDR. Setting the UPD for All, Except a Few Printers (Meta. Frame XP Feature Release 3)Refer to CTX1. Document Not Found] for the procedure. Complete the following as an alternate procedure: Select Use Universal Driver only if Native Driver is Unavailable in the Management Console.
For printer drivers that are never to be used, add the names of any of these drivers to this list: Troubleshooting UPD Printing Within Applications. Complete the following procedure to troubleshoot UPD printing within applications: Connect a printer locally to the Meta. Frame server and select the HP Laser. Jet Series II or current UPD alias driver in the Add Printer wizard. If you cannot connect this printer to the server, browse and connect to a shared network printer and modify the driver on the Advanced tab of the Explorer’s printer properties dialog box.
Create an alias UPD printer and set the port as FILE, run the application, and print to the alias UPD printer. Verify how the application behaves when executed on the console with the same driver that is used by the UPD.
Do any other similar print outputs in other applications experience the same behavior as the UPD? Do print jobs from the applications experience any issues when mapped to the same driver as the client device? When printing certain forms using the universal print driver, the page does not print as displayed? When printing using Version 2. This fix offers a workaround by allowing you to disable print optimization in the printer settings.
To do this, set the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Citrix\Universal. Print. Drivers\PCL5c. Name: Disable. Print. Optimizations. Type: REG_DWORDData=1 [From MPSE3. R0. 5W2. K3. 00. 6][#1.
Cause. The application is directly inserting PCL of its own origin into the print stream using the form overlay capability of the PCL language. The PCL form overlay feature can be accessed through an escape function provided by most PCL5 printer drivers, the 4. It basically allows an application to insert arbitrary PCL directly into the print data stream. Resolution. Configure the application to use strictly GDI rendering instead of PCL Escape. Pass. Through or the standard device driver instead of the universal print driver.
Can the UPD Margin Settings Be Changed? The margins presented by the new universal driver, HP Color Laser. Jet 4. 50. 0, are different. However, the bitmap- to- page registration algorithm is unchanged. Because Meta. Frame XP Feature Release 2 uses the HP Laser.
Jet Series II driver, the nonprintable region of a Series II printer is ¼- inch on each side of the page. Citrix uses the UPD as a proxy driver on the server and the non- printable region of the client printer is most likely going to be different. Therefore, the real nonprintable area of the printer may be larger than that of the universal driver.