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Printer Support (BETA)
« on: July 25, 2013, 07:40:07 PM »

Aeolis

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Hello folks,

I would like to share a script that I have been working for a while for Printer Support to Windows PE. Currently this is a a script in BETA stage. I am posting it here in the hope that more "eyes" and "brains" thinking together can find out what is still missing to this script.

For now, I have been able to bring the most basic functionally to PE: Print Management MMC snap-in is fully functional, spooler service starts ok, I am able to install PDF Creator as a secondary virtual printer and all virtual printers installed in system are shown correctly in the Device Display windows under printer title as well as in the Print management MMC snap-in.

But until now I could not print using the Microsoft XPS Printer nor the PDF Creator printer. I always receive a "A StartDocPrinter call was not issued." when trying to to print to .xps.

Here is the file: * Printer Support.7z (1012.98 kB - downloaded 873 times.)

Best regards,

Aeolis
« Last Edit: August 04, 2013, 08:58:13 PM by Aeolis »

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #1 on: August 04, 2013, 09:05:47 PM »

Aeolis

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Hello folks,

I would like to report that now it's possible to print to .xps (with the built-in Microsoft XPS Printer) and to .pdf (with PDF Creator - if you install it).:happy:

Now I will work on debugging and activating real printers usage (hardware printers). Feel free to join in the BETA testing of this script.

Best regards,

Aeolis
« Last Edit: August 04, 2013, 09:08:29 PM by Aeolis »

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2013, 07:56:06 PM »

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Hello folks,

I would like to report that I was able to successfully print a test page in my AiO (All-in-One) HP Deskjet 4480 printer. :happy: But I was not able to use its scanner component to scan the test page. The process of installing the HP Deskjet 4480 drivers was a bit clumsy, but in the end it worked. I will keep digging.

Please, share your experience with this script, it can be very helpful to me and others when improving this script.

Best regards,

Aeolis
« Last Edit: August 11, 2013, 08:07:50 PM by Aeolis »

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2013, 04:48:12 AM »

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Good to hear of your development success. :great:

ChrisR is currently on vacation, but I'm sure he will like to see this when he returns.

Regards,
Galapo.

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #4 on: March 13, 2014, 10:37:39 PM »

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Any updates by chance?

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2014, 08:43:11 PM »

Aeolis

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Hello folks,

Dear BiatuAutMiahn, thank you for your interest in this script, but, sorry, I have paused my work in this script.

Best regards,

Aeolis
« Last Edit: March 14, 2014, 08:43:38 PM by Aeolis »

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #6 on: August 19, 2014, 07:29:17 PM »

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Hello Aeolis and Friends,

Could you help me, I need to install an HP 3600 and I'm not getting what steps you used with your HP?
- I started the printer drivers through the Driver Integration but does not install
- Started by LoadVgaDriver usb driver but not install
- Started the drivers on Autorun Script but does not install
Would you like a hint how you did install to get a physical printer.

Thank you

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2016, 06:41:23 PM »

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Hi Aeolis
I'm interested about your printer support plugin. I know that you stopped working on this but i need your last version to try it.
The link in your first message gives me a corrupted 7z file . Can you or anyone else, please send me a working copy ?
thanks in advance

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2016, 07:30:46 PM »

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The link in your first message gives me a corrupted 7z file.
Download with another browser, as written before and confirmed by ChrisR, 7z file is fine.

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Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2016, 07:53:22 PM »

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Yes, it's ok. The error was from decompression program (iZArc). With 7-zip it decompressed ok.
Now I try to deal with it !

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #10 on: January 07, 2016, 08:17:36 PM »

Lancelot

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The error was from decompression program (iZArc).

Thanks for feedback,
 knowing reason behind always good.  :great:

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #11 on: October 22, 2016, 03:59:40 PM »

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Hi Aeolis,

I put your beta plugin to server
\Downloads\ComponentsY\Printer Support (BETA)
with syntax update, plugin file rename , tips, and links to current topic ....

Hopefully on server more easily found,
So Maybe someone work on it and get printer work on other projects than Win7PESE x86  :wink:



ps: Besides some warnings, RequireDriver.exe not working on Win10PESE x64 test  :wink:

If you can, maybe better to provide source codes of
RequireDriver.exe
RecExecFileList.exe
so one can update them...

Well so far some people interested to printer, nobody work on it yet ;)
 well they were guys who can not use google even not being able to find your current topic  :lol: ,
 besides someone is waiting there to take the printer mission.  :cool:

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Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2018, 04:22:29 PM »

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Hey, I'm getting an error when trying to install the script using winbuilder (windows 10):
The error is:
"Unable to create directory:  [DirMake,%ProjectTemp%\%ProgramFolder%]"
Can anyone please help me with that?
Thank you so much!

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #13 on: July 08, 2019, 10:29:05 AM »

Wikly

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Hello.
Please tell me what specific registry entries you are importing into the image.
Since there is no possibility to use winbuilder, I collect everything manually.

Thank you in advance.

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #14 on: July 08, 2019, 11:27:27 AM »

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Hi Aeolis
I know that you stopped working on your printer support plugin but i need a version for Windows10PE.
I try it on Windows 10 but WinBuilder gives error on copying necessary files.
Would you please write a new printer plugin that support Windows10 x64?
Thank you very much.

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #15 on: November 16, 2019, 04:28:36 PM »

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Would you please write a new printer plugin that support Windows10 x64?
Thank you very much.

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #16 on: November 16, 2019, 04:36:55 PM »

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Hi Guys

Quote
Would you please write a new printer plugin that support Windows10 x64?

If this is a request for Aeolis, it's been approaching 2 years since he was last active on this site

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #17 on: November 16, 2019, 04:40:30 PM »

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printer plugin PDFFactory

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #18 on: November 16, 2019, 04:41:45 PM »

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printer plugin PDFFactory

can you expand a bit?

Re: Printer Support (BETA)
« Reply #19 on: November 16, 2019, 05:50:36 PM »

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Unreal printer

https://fineprint.com/pdfp/

Like Microsoft Printer To PDF
« Last Edit: November 16, 2019, 05:51:37 PM by Jon_2030 »

 

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