Citrix Universal Print Server Download

I've recently built a Xenapp 7.6 Site with two Storefront servers and two VDA servers. No printer drivers were installed on the VDA servers, and users can print fine - a policy in Studio gets them to map to their local printer. This all works great 99% of the time.

However, I would appreciate if someone can point me to set-up scenarios for Xenapp 7.6 printing. We have one issue wherein full reports to Ricoh printers are missing characters, but if you print individual pages, the characters come out fine.

My idea is to install printer drivers for each printer directly onto each VDA server in the Machine Catalog. I need to understand how and when the Citrix Universal Printer is used, versus when a locally installed printer driver is used. I can see from 'Print Server Properties ~ Drivers' on each VDA server that the 'Citrix Universal Printer' driver has been installed by default.

Citrix Universal Printer

Citrix universal print driver compatibility

How it works. The Citrix Universal Print Server will intercept the Windows Add Printer wizard and map the printer using the masked drivers. If you don’t want to users to have to add the printers themselves then you use Gpo – this in turn triggers that wizard and Universal Print Server acts as it should.

For example, am I using the Citrix Universal Printer driver already when print jobs get mapped to the user's local printer? Can the Citrix Universal Printer driver be deleted and still operate? etc. I'm looking for some design articles to educate me on the various options and how they work - any help is much appreciated.

Mark

Citrix Universal Print Driver Setup

User management of print jobs with Citrix Universal Print Server Asked by Jason1Q, November 13, 2018. Citrix universal printer citrix receiver.
NOTE: The Citrix Universal Print Server (UPS) 7.6 was previously only available with the download of the XenApp/XenDesktop 7.6.iso image. It has been released as a separate download so customers with previously supported versions of XenApp/XenDesktop can take advantage of the enhancements in the Citrix UPS 7.6 version. Additional Resources.