We have a large mixture of HP printers and Ricohcopiers in our environment. They are all linked through a Server 2008R2 Standard edition Server. For the HP printers, some of them do use the specific print driver and other user a universal print driver, also a mix between PCL 5 and 6. Most of the problem are occurring on Windows 7 (we don't have many windows XP and they use a different print server).
Here are the problems we are having:
1. Randomly the HP printer will stop working. Everything appears to be correct on the server and the PC and it works fine from another PC, but it doesn't appear to be communicating to the printer at all. You click Print in any application and it never actually does anything. If you just delete and re-add the printer you get problem #2. To actually fix it, you have to remove the printer, go into Print...