Printing policies

The following table lists the policies that apply to the printing settings:

Policy	Function	Default	Use with policy
Auto-create client printers and Client printer redirection	This specifies the client printers that are autocreated. This setting overrides the default Client printer auto-creation settings.	Auto-created
Auto-create generic universal printer	This enables or disables the autocreation of the generic Citrix Universal Printer object for the sessions where a user device that is compatible with universal printing is in use.	Not autocreated	Universal print driver usage Universal driver preference
Universal print server enable	This enables or disables the Universal Print Server.	Disabled
Universal print server print data stream (CGP) port	This specifies the TCP port number used by the Universal Print Server print data stream Common Gateway Protocol (CGP) listener.	Port 7229
Universal print server web service (HTTP/SOAP) port	This specifies the TCP port number used by the Universal Print Server Web service listener for the incoming HTTP/SOAP requests.	Port 8080
Universal print server print stream input bandwidth limit (kbps)	This specifies the upper boundary (in kilobits per second) for the transfer rate of print data that is delivered from each XenApp or XenDesktop print job to the Universal Print Server using CGP.	0
Universal print EMF processing mode	This controls the method of processing the EMF spool file on the Windows user device.	Spooled directly to printer
Universal printing image compression limit	This specifies the maximum quality and the minimum compression level available for images that are printed with the Universal Printer Driver.	Best quality (lossless compression)	Universal printing optimization defaults
Universal printing optimization defaults	This specifies the default values for printing optimization when the Universal Printer driver is created for a session.	Standard Quality
Universal printing preview performance	This specifies whether or not to use the Print Preview function for the autocreated or generic universal printers.	Not used	Universal print driver usage
Universal printing print quality limit	This specifies the maximum dots per inch (dpi) that are available for generating a printed output in the session.	No limit
Client printer names	This selects the naming convention used for the autocreated client printers.	Standard printer names	Auto-create client printers
Printer properties retention	This controls the location where the printer properties are stored.
Direct connections to print servers	This enables or disables the direct connections from the host to a print server for the client printers that are hosted on an accessible network share.	Enabled
Printer driver mapping and compatibility	This specifies the driver substitution rules for the autocreated client printers.	None specified
Printer properties retention	This specifies whether or not to store the printer properties and where to store them.	System determines
Client printer redirection	This controls whether or not users can access the printers connected to their user devices.	Allowed	Auto-create client printers
Default Printer	This specifies how the default printer on the user device is established in a session.	Users' current printer
Printer assignments	This provides an alternative to the Default printer and Session printers settings. Use the individual Default Printer and Session Printers settings to configure behaviors for a farm, Site, large group, or an organizational unit. Use the Printer assignments setting to assign a large group of printers to multiple users.	Users' current printer
Printer auto-creation event log performance	This specifies the events that are logged during the printer autocreation process.	Errors and warnings
Session printers	This specifies the network printers to be autocreated in a session.	None specified
Automatic installation of in-box printer drivers	This enables or disables the automatic installation of the printer drivers from the Windows in-box driver set or from the driver packages staged on the host using pnputil.exe /a.	Installed as needed
Automatic installation of in-box printer drivers	This controls the installation of the native Windows drivers when automatically creating the client and network printers.
Universal print driver usage	This controls whether or not to use the Universal Printer Driver.	Only used if requested driver is unavailable	Auto-create generic universal printer