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Remove duplicated or redirected printers

Updated over 2 weeks ago

When selecting a printer to choose within Dimensions, if you have multiple options for the same printer, they will show as 'Printer name(Redirected 2)'.
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To remove duplicate printer entries:

  1. Please contact your IT team as these steps need to be done by them.

  2. Take a backup of the computer registry.

  3. On the computer, press the Windows key.

  4. Type regedit

  5. Navigate to
    ​HKEY_USERS\<User Sid>\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Devices

  6. Remove the redirected printer entries within the list.

  7. Check in Dimensions to see if the printers have been removed from the list.

  8. If they still show, navigate to
    ​HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\PrinterPorts

  9. Remove the redirected printer entries from there too.

  10. Check in Dimensions to see if the printers have been removed from the list.

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