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Printing from a Remote Desktop or Application
From a remote desktop, you can print to a virtual printer or to a USB printer that is aached to your client
computer. Virtual printing and USB printing work together without conict.
You can use the virtual printing feature with the following types of remote desktops and applications:
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Remote desktops that run Windows Server operating systems
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Session-based desktops (on virtual machine RDS hosts)
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Remote hosted applications
Set Printing Preferences for the Virtual Printer Feature on a Remote Desktop
The virtual printing feature lets end users use local or network printers from a remote desktop without
requiring that additional print drivers be installed in the remote desktop. For each printer available through
this feature, you can set preferences for data compression, print quality, double-sided printing, color, and so
on.
After a printer is added on the local computer, Horizon Client adds that printer to the list of available
printers on the remote desktop. No further conguration is required. Users who have administrator
privileges can still install printer drivers on the remote desktop without creating a conict with the virtual
printer component.
I This feature is not available for the following types of printers:
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USB printers that are using the USB redirection feature to connect to a virtual USB port in the remote
desktop
You must disconnect the USB printer from the remote desktop in order to use the virtual printing
feature with it.
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The Windows feature for printing to a le
Selecting the Print to  check box in a Print dialog box does not work. Using a printer driver that
creates a le does work. For example, you can use a PDF writer to print to a PDF le.
This procedure is wrien for a remote desktop that has a Windows 7 or Windows 8.x (Desktop) operating
system. The procedure is similar but not exactly the same for Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server
2012.
Prerequisites
Verify that the Virtual Printing component of the agent is installed on the remote desktop. In the remote
desktop le system, verify that the following folder exists: C:\Program Files\Common Files\ThinPrint.
To use virtual printing, the View administrator must have enabled the virtual printing feature for the remote
desktop. This task includes enabling the Virtual Printing setup option in the agent installer, and can include
seing policies regarding virtual printing behavior. For more information, see the View Administration
document if you are using Connection Server and View Agent 5.x or an earlier version. See Seing Up
Desktop and Application Pools in View if you are using Horizon 6 or later.
Procedure
1 In the Windows 7 or Windows 8.x remote desktop, click Start > Devices and Printers.
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