Can i print to a local wireless HP 7400 officejet while in RDC?

[Guest]

I have a wireless HP Officejet 7400. It is a network printer with its own ip
address. Is there a way to print to it (as a local printer) when I make a
remote desktop connection to my server at work. My officejet printer is not
available to the server at work.

The RDC options appear to only allow printing to local printers that are
physically attached to my pc.

Thanks for any help provided.

 

[Robin Walker]

I have a wireless HP Officejet 7400. It is a network printer with
its own ip address. Is there a way to print to it (as a local
printer) when I make a remote desktop connection to my server at
work. My officejet printer is not available to the server at work.

You need to install the HP Officejet 7400 drivers on your work PC, even
though you have no Officejet there. Then when you connect from home with
Remote Desktop, it should automatically make your home Officejet the default
printer for this session on your work PC. The printer traffic passes down
the RDP pipe from office to home, then onwards to your printer.

 

[Guest]

Thanks. I will give it a try. But how will the work pc know that the
OfficeJet is a local network printer only to the remote connection? Is there
a special port that I need to install it on?

PC Anywhere used to have a PCAW port that the printer used which allowed it
to send everythinng to the local printer.

 

[Robin Walker]

But how will the work pc know that the
OfficeJet is a local network printer only to the remote connection?
Is there a special port that I need to install it on?

This is all part of the Remote Desktop magic. It "just works". You do not
need to install the drivers on any special port (LPT1 will suffice): the
driver binaries just need to be there on the RDP server so that RDP can
capture the printer stream and sent it to the client.