We currently have 7 network capable printers deployed around my company site. I have been tasked with migrating all of them to a new Windows Server 2008 R2 machine from a 32 bit Windows Server 2008 machine.
As well as migrating the devices, I am also ironing out several issues the logical printers caused for our users. The largest (and most annoying) of the reported issue stems from two OKI B710dn printers that effectively glitch out a user's session when trying to print from Microsoft Word.
Essentially whenever anyone tries to change printer preferences from the word application, the mouse cursor would begin blinking rapidly and blockade the application from doing anything else. To this end, I initially advised my users to change the printer preference outside the application using the "Devices and Printers" tool in the OS (namely...