Print in a Session

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There are a number of methods for connecting and addressing printers in a Remote Desktop environment. Aside from the technique generally implemented in the LAN, which entails granting user rights to a network printer for a company department or a building floor, for example, sessions on Remote Desktop Session Hosts in particular often have the additional requirement that the same printers be available in the session as are available on the workstation outside the session. In other words, the workstation's local printers should be made available within the Remote Desktop session. In the following we describe three methods for implementing this functionality:

Support for local printers provided by RDP version 5.2

Universal printer driver/Remote Desktop Easy Print

Universal PDF printer driver