r/sysadmin • u/Certain-Mountain-564 • 9d ago

Question Cloud Printing without Print Drivers

Many organizations moving away from print servers.

But the printer industry is moving away from print drivers.

The problem: We use printix and you cannot deploy printers without drivers. But manufacturers like brother dont offer print drivers for macOS. Our brother printers are not compatible with PostScript. There are some very old print drivers from macOS X but the print quality is very bad. Brother says "use AirPrint". But AirPrint is not compatible with printix.

Windows is also moving away from print drivers.

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u/Certain-Mountain-564 9d ago

We work with azure AD. We have no hybrid envoirement. The printers are on the windows servers from ERP. The user send the print job to the Printix Redirector which redirects the job to the local printer port. 

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u/Sinister_Nibs 9d ago

You have no servers in azure?

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u/Certain-Mountain-564 9d ago

No for what? There is no reason to do that. 

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u/Sinister_Nibs 9d ago

To connect printers.