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I've determined that the driver DMG I created with Composer is good. The
issue is pushing the printer. If I push the driver and manually create the
printer, I get the proper driver and all features. If I push the printer via
a policy I get limited features from the driver.

Any thoughts?

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$(UCan't say I have a lot of experience with network printers as I have grown to hate them over the years, but I always captured the PPD file in /etc/ppds and pushed them out that way, then let the user just add the printer. No idea if that even helps you.

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Hey Greg,

If manually adding the printer is working for you, you could also try using
this script to add it..

Manually test it out and if all works normally you should be able to add the
printer this way via a policy as well..

Example:

# -p allows you to give the printer a desired name.
# -L Location description of the printer
# -v Sets to IPP printing and sets the IP Address to be used.
# -P Sets the driver to be used by the printer. (Make sure driver is
installed on computer.)

lpadmin -p PRINTER_NAME -L "Location of Printer" -E -v
ipp://10.255.255.255/Print_Queue -P
/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/"HP LaserJet 5200.gz"

(Just make sure your PPD path is pointing to the correct driver..)

-- Jason Weber
Technology Support Cluster Specialist
Casper Certified Administrator
Independent School District 196
jason.weber at district196.org

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