This can greatly reduce resource usage and logon times since only one printer object has to be created. What this means is you could have 10 printers mapped to your local machine, but when logging on to a Citrix session only one printer object is created (the generic Citrix Universal Printer). The Citrix Universal Printer (optional) is a generic printer object that is auto-created at the start of a session and is not linked to any particular printing device. Set this as Use universal printing only or Use universal printing only if requested driver is unavailable. To specify the use of the Universal Print Driver, create a Citrix policy using the Universal print driver usage setting. You can tell printers are using the Citrix Universal Print Driver by looking at the printer properties shown below. For the majority of the time though, using the Universal Print Driver will work just fine for most needs so ultimately your work will be cut out for most print devices. You also need to make sure the driver does not negatively affect operations. Whilst this will work it will add extra maintenance overhead as you provision the print driver to your VDAs using PVS or MCS.

If a user needs vendor specific preferences on a printer then you may have to install the native print driver for that specific printer.

You can specify that the Universal Print Driver is always used for example, configured using Citrix Policies.

This driver is only used if the VDA machine does not find a specific driver for printers that are being used in session however is policy driven and configurable. The Citrix universal printer driver is installed with the VDA on Server/Desktop OS and can operate with most client attached and networked printers. What is the Citrix Universal Print Driver? The Citrix Universal Printer is one, the Citrix Universal Print Driver and the Universal Print Server are the others. There are three different components to Citrix printing that can be implemented to unlock better management and advanced printing capabilities.

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