Starting out with Universal Print
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Universal Print is a Microsoft cloud solution which can replace your Windows based printservices. It can be used to deploy printers to endpoints, even to non-Windows devices in a cloud-only way.
Requirements
- Around 30 minutes of your time
- A license which includes Universal Printing
- Basic knowledge of Intune and Windows
What is Universal Printing?
Universal Printing is a cloud based service of Microsoft for installing, managing and deploying printers to end users in a modern way. This service eliminates the need for having to manage your own print servers and enables us to deploy printers in a nice and easy way. This is mostly HTTPS-based.
You can use Universal Print with printers in 2 ways:
- Universal Print-ready: This is only supported by modern printers, and can be directly connected to Universal Print
- Universal Print connector: For printers who doesn’t support native Universal Print Microsoft has a connector which can be installed in the same network as the printer to act as a print proxy. The downside is that this means extra administrative effort.
Pricing of Universal Print
To be clear of the costs of Universal Print:
Universal Print ready vs Connector
Registering a printer in Universal Print
Deploying printers with Intune
Managing Printing Preferences
Summary
Sources
These sources helped me by writing and research for this post;
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/intune-service/configuration/settings-catalog-printer-provisioning
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/universal-print/get-access-to-universal-print?pivots=segment-commercial#list-of-subscriptions-that-include-universal-print-entitlement
- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/universal-print/get-access-to-universal-print?pivots=segment-commercial#print-job-volume
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