Enabling Easy Print Printer Redirection in Windows 2008

In order to enable Easy Print based printer redirection in Windows 2008 the following requirements are needed:

On the (Terminal) server-side, Windows Server 2008 needs to be installed.  No additional drivers need to be installed; no additional configuration needs to take place.  The Terminal Services Easy Print driver is enabled by default.

On the client-side, to use the Terminal Services Easy Print driver, clients must be running Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) 6.1 and Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Service Pack 1 (SP1) must be installed. on the RDC configuration, put a check mark on the Printers option under "Local Resources" tab.

If you want to have more control over what type of printers you can redirect, the following registry configuration must be implemented:

Go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\AddIns\RDPDR (if there is not such key, create the needed structure by yourself). Add a DWORD value FilterQueueType with any of the following decimal values:

FilterQueueType = 1           All ports that begin with LPT
FilterQueueType = 2           All ports that begin with COM
FilterQueueType = 3           All ports that begin with LPT or COM
FilterQueueType = 4           All ports that begin with USB
FilterQueueType = 5           All ports that begin with LPT or USB
FilterQueueType = 6           All ports that begin with COM or USB
FilterQueueType = 7           All ports that begin with LPT, COM, or USB
FilterQueueType = FFFFFFFF    All ports

Close the registry and reboot the client machine.