About printing to your Macintosh printers from the Windows-based computer

If you use a PostScript printer on your Macintosh, you can route printing jobs from the Windows-based computer to the printer attached to your Macintosh computer. Your Macintosh printers will appear on the Windows-based computer in the Printers folder in the Control Panel. They will be named using this format: Macintosh Printer Name/Macintosh Computer Name/Session Number.

When you log on to a Windows-based computer, Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac detects any PostScript printers attached to universal serial bus (USB) ports as well as any PostScript network printers attached to your Macintosh computer and creates a queue on the Macintosh computer for each printer detected on the Windows-based computer you are connected to. Some Macintosh printer settings (such as printing on both sides of the page) will not be available from the Windows-based computer.

When you disconnect or end the session, the printer queue is deleted from the Windows-based computer, and any incomplete or pending print jobs are lost. On subsequent logons, the printer queue is recreated on the Windows-based computer using the preferences stored by Remote Desktop Connection.

If a compatible printer driver is not found on the Windows-based computer, the Macintosh printer queue is not created in the remote session, and an event is logged in the Windows Event Logger on the Windows-based computer. To make the printer available, a compatible printer driver must be manually installed on the Windows-based computer you are connecting to.

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