Managing Universal Printing Servers

To configure RAS Universal Printing, select the Universal Printing category in the RAS Console.

By default, the Universal Printing driver is automatically installed together with a Terminal Server Agent, VDI Guest VM Agent, or a Remote PC Agent. Therefore, upon adding a server to the farm, the Universal Printing is already enabled. The Universal Printing driver is available as a 32 bit and 64 bit version.

Enabling and Disabling Universal Printing Support

To enable or disable the Universal Printing support for a server, right-click the server in the Servers in Site list and click Enable or Disable in the context menu.

Configuring a Printer Renaming Pattern

By default, Parallels Remote Application Server renames printers using the following pattern: %PRINTERNAME% for %USERNAME% by RAS . For example, let's say a user named Alice has a local printer named Printer1. When Alice launches a remote application or desktop, her printer is named Printer1 for Alice by RAS .

To change the default printer renaming pattern, specify a new pattern in the Pattern input field. To see the predefined variables that you can use, click the [...] button next to the Pattern input field. The variables are:

• %CLIENTNAME% — the name of the client computer.
• %PRINTERNAME% — the name of a printer on the client side.
• %USERNAME% — the name of the user connected to RAS.
• %SESSIONID% — RAS session ID.
• <2X Universal Printer> Legacy mode —  This means that only one printer object will be created in the terminal (RDP) session.

You can also use certain other characters in a printer renaming pattern. For example, you can define the following commonly used pattern: Client/%CLIENTNAME%#/%PRINTERNAME% . Using this pattern (and the user named Alice from the example above), a local printer will be named Client/Alice's Computer#/Printer1

You can specify a different printer renaming pattern for each server in the Servers in Site list.

Note: Redirected printers are only accessible by the administrator and the user who redirected the printer.