Looks like it's time for someone to build an extension with ondemand preferences for printing.

We are going to have to sit down and talk a bit more about where certain features should be controlled. There are things done at client level, server, session manager, relay, etc. Some make sense to be in certain places, in some cases we make a judgment call. But all of this is on radar to review and talk through. Thanks to everyone for feedback.

Its still be considered. When we started this discussion 5.2 and 5.3 were in development. We haven't officially released 5.3 yet so once done and out the door we will look at bigger changes to the feature.

I'd like to see individual Printer Sessions optional (or ondemand), allowing the support technician to be able to choose to share individual Printers with the Remote Session.

In my example, I can sometimes have 20+ printers locally, and having these "all" automatically shared with every remote session I establish is painful. I'm at the point of disabling this feature completely - although can see the benefit of being able to print back to my support office from time to time.

So ... I'd like to see the Client Toolbar (where the View, Misc, Toolbox, File Transfer, etc icons are), a Printer icon that drops down a list of all of the local tech Printers, and then allows the support tech to enable each individual printer they want to share with the Remote Session. So "if" I want to print something back to me, I simply enable one Printer of my choice, wait for it to connect with the Remote session, and then print to it.

I would like to see it on a toolbar as well, maybe copying how log me in does it would be a great way. the Hot Setup would be add one client printer to the host on demand with a dropdown and check box type screen, and since the on-demand will take a bit of time to finish, a pop-up that it completed. Since I do a ton of printer troubleshooting on a daily basis with SC, the thing adding all my (carl) printers makes life harder.

+1 for making this on-demand and/or per-client or per-group or per-CustomProperty.

This is screwing with some of our clients, notably causing eventlog errors in w2012 servers.

@clickright - Please ccontact us via chat or ticket submission at https://www.screenconnect.com/Support. We'll probably need to set up a support session to troubleshoot the issue.

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Is remote printing still enabled by default? If so, do printers only get installed when a host connects to the session? This is the main feature that has kept me from upgrading past 4.4.

Hello All,

I have added the line to disable remote printing to my web.config file, then restarted all of my screenconnect services but still when i connect to my clients my printers start to show up under Devices and Printers.

The reason for me to disable this is because i have experienced issues with them going away after i disconnect from the client. Besides i would like to control when i want my printers to be shared with my clients.

We are using ScreenConnect 5.3 (stable)

This feature needs to be made to be OnDemand... It is a great idea but it almost never uninstalls the printers on the client side. We have clients printing into our office all of the time because of this. It needs to be so you can opt to use it when needed and have it select one printer to install... I have printers that have been removed but SC still installs them on the client side. I hate the fact that I have to globally disable this but since it doesn't work well I have no choice.