Using the Citrix Universal Printer
The Citrix Universal Printer is a generic printer created at the beginning of sessions that can be used with almost any printer. Using a single print driver simplifies the deployment of a XenApp farm.
The Citrix Universal Printer name doesn't change when users reconnect; this is good because changing printer names can cause issues on some applications.
When the Citrix Universal Printer is enabled, an extra printer is created in each session with the name Citrix UNIVERSAL Printer in the session #number of session, where #number of session is ID of the client connected.
Using Citrix Universal printers provides two benefits:
Reduce print management complexity
Increase the speed of starting a session
Often, Citrix Universal printing can't work in our environment, for example:
A few printer models can't work properly as they are incompatible with the Citrix Universal driver
Some users require access to advanced printer options which are not available; for example,...
