I realize there are several methods to deploy printers in Win2012R2 and RDS in general, but could someone explain to me why this method does not appear to be working?

Dedicated print server with 15 TCPIP printers installed.  Each different HP has the correct Class driver installed.  Each HP prints from this server no problem.  Three of the Ricoh printers use the RICOH Class driver without issue.  One model Ricoh I had to download the MP 161 type 3 driver from the web, works flawlessly on the Print server.

Went to the RDS 2012R2 server and in devices and printers i manually added each of the Class drivers for the printers, the list of v4 drivers matched the print server exactly.  Then i added the one Ricoh v.3 driver.

On the print server in Print Management each printer was right clicked>Deploy with Group Policy... selected a predefined GPO, set it to Per Machine, that GPO is applied to the OU that the RDS server is in, and loopback replace is enabled.

GPUpdate and rebooted the RDS server, logged into the console and all of the printers were there as expected.  The drivers however were a different story.  The Ricoh's the use the Class driver, no problem.  The Ricohs that needed the v.3 driver were instead using the HP Laserjet A4, a random other HP used that driver as well, and a couple were using the Laserjet ZJS driver.  Then after another reboot a couple of the Ricoh's started using the v3 driver, but in Devices and Printers the model is simply "Network Printer Connection"

Fallback driver GPO is disabled.  Remote Desktop Easy Print is disabled.  Any ideas on what's going on?

***the behavior seems to be consistent, for instance I have 3 printers on the server using the HP Laserjet P205X series PCL6 Class Driver, and on the RDS server I manually installed that driver, but all 3 printers are instead using the HP Laserjet A4/Letter PCL 6 Class Driver.

***also if I use the Add Printer wizard and find the printer, select it, as a user in the desktop collection, it installs fine, it pops up to confirm says it's using Laserjet P205X series PCL6 Class Driver, i get the printer SSDF01.domain.com (it lists it differently this way) installed, but when i look at the driver it is using, the ZJS.  Very odd to me.

• Edited by Willmeister Friday, July 17, 2015 12:25 PM added info

Thanks Amy.  Operation log was not enabled in this particular environment, i forgot about it.  But i've consistently had the same problems in 4 RDS environments and each time it's the same thing.  The 5th one I'm working on now, i removed the print server, was actually over kill here anyway since there are only 4 printers, but all 4 are installed as TCP/IP printers right on all 3 RDSH servers, and there are no problems. 

I'll monitor the logs on this one in question.  But my suspicion, they don't have a problem actually printing to the printers when they are setup.  But if i remote into a user today that has 5 printers installed, tomorrow there will be 3 or 4 copies of each one of those printers....or like i said old removed ones show up again.

Thanks for your time though, we can put this one to bed.