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#236253 25-May-2018 14:49

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 .

askelon

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#2022491 25-May-2018 14:55

I also have had this problem from time to time and havent ever come up with a solution. Its very irritating.

CYaBro

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#2022530 25-May-2018 16:20

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.

Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer.

SepticSceptic

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#2035964 13-Jun-2018 14:23

Create a different network port for each printer queue.

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#2035968 13-Jun-2018 14:36

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.