If a client user opens the printer driver properties (to display the properties when using
Windows 8 or Windows 7, press the Alt key, and select Printer properties from the
displayed File menu) and then clicks OK with the Enable bidirectional support check
box cleared on the Ports tab, the bidirectional communication function of the print
server may also be disabled.
In this case, check Enable bidirectional support check box on both the print server
system and the client system.
• When you print from a client system, you cannot use Canon IJ Preview.
• When the functions on the Maintenance tab cannot be set properly from a client
system, they may be grayed out. In this case, change the settings from the print server.
When you change the settings of the print server, you should delete the icon of the
shared printer from the client system, and then specify the shared settings again in the
client system.
When the Same Printer Driver is Installed in the Print Server System and
the Client System as the Local Printer
• The net crawl function may automatically create a network printer icon on the client
system.
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