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Universal Print overview

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Universal Print overview

Microsoft's cloud printing service for Microsoft 365 — what it does, how to deploy it, and the limits.

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How Universal Print works

Universal Print registers printers in your Microsoft 365 tenant. When a user prints:

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Printer types

Universal Print supports two printer categories:

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Configuration

In the Microsoft 365 admin center under Printers:

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Hybrid printer publishing

For organisations on the journey, hybrid printer publishing lets you import existing Windows Print Server queues into Universal Print without a full forklift migration. Users can keep printing the way they always did fr…

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Licensing

Universal Print is licensed by print jobs per month. Each Microsoft 365 E3 / E5 / Business Premium licence includes a monthly print job allowance (currently several hundred per user). Additional volume can be purchased.

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