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#236253 25-May-2018 14:49
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Hi

 

Has anyone found a definite way to stop Win7,8,10 from creating duplicate printers & nesting under each other ?
eg Aprinter & Aprinter(copy1) nested on top of each other.
It happens with all brands of printers , happens with USB or networked attatched printers

 

In Win10(1803) I cant separate out the 2 nested printers to delete the copy.
So what happens is 2 or 3 copies of the same printer. Last PC I looked at only copy2 & copy3 would print .

 

Sure I could remove the printer & reinstall printer & driver, but thats not a fix, as Win could just start making more copies again

 

3 different PC's with this same multiple printer copy issue in the last 2 days.
Win calls this a feature :-(

 

none of the 'fixes' found on google worked .


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  #2022491 25-May-2018 14:55
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I also have had this problem from time to time and havent ever come up with a solution.  Its very irritating. 




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  #2022530 25-May-2018 16:20
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Does this one help at all?

 

I've had to do this on some servers that for some reason don't show installed network printers in the normal Printers folder.

 

 





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  #2035964 13-Jun-2018 14:23
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Create a different network port for each printer queue.

 




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  #2035968 13-Jun-2018 14:36
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The joys of windows 10s 'Here We'll help you with that without you touching it' attitude.

 

And thanks to local IPv6 probes, PnP Drivers/devices and updates to them it can create a new one each time the DHCP lease changes or drivers get updated.

 

As above, easiest way is to set a IP reserve and print to IP rather than let windows handle it.


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