Known issues

This topic contains information about potential issues you may encounter while using Printix. Workarounds are included, as applicable.

Printix Administrator

Component ID Description
Printix Administrator 944107 On the Setup tab of the "Printer properties" page, the "Contact Printer" button contains an invalid character.
Printix Administrator 943035 On the SNMP tab of the Settings page, the top part of the filter icon cannot be selected.
Printix Administrator 942619 On the "Computer properties" page, an "Oops! Something went wrong" message is displayed if no active Printix Client is on the network.
Printix Administrator 942601 On the Sites page, if you try to delete a site that is used for cloud storage, error 409 is displayed.
Printix Administrator 942600 The text "Refresh" is displayed when creating a destination profile with Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft OneDrive.
Printix Administrator 942576 On the History page, the Date field is missing in several languages.
Printix Administrator 942574 On the "Cloud storage" tab of the Settings page, the "Move up" and "Move down" options are not visible for the last cloud storage item.
Printix Administrator 942320 If you are redirected to the Printix Administrator, the language may be changed.
Printix Administrator 942253 Capture workflow creation page is not in the middle of the browser window.
Printix Administrator 942252 In the "Add cloud storage" dialog box, if you try to add an Azure cloud storage with invalid or expired details, error 400 is displayed.
Printix Administrator 942251 On the Networks page, if you try to add existing gateways to a new network, error 409 is displayed.
Printix Administrator 934840 When adding or editing workflows, long values cannot fit on the screen in the "Default value" list of the metadata field.
Printix Administrator 933622 When adding or editing workflows, the "Import" string in the metadata is not translated.
Printix Administrator 706048 In the "Create application" dialog box of the Applications page, the icon for copying the tenant ID to the clipboard does not work.
Printix Administrator 516703 On the "Microsoft Entra ID" tab of the Authentication page, deleted registrations are not removed.
Printix Administrator N/A

A blank screen may appear intermittently or the Printix Administrator can no longer be accessed.

Workaround: Clear your browsing data.

Printix Go

Component ID Description
Printix Go Lexmark 946487

On Lexmark printers, when the configured sign-in method is "Card or code" or "Select automatically" and a supported card reader is attached, the sign-in page does not display the option to sign in with card.

Workaround: Use the "Card" sign-in method.

Printix Go Kyocera 944020 While using capture, the printer displays "Printer is busy."
Printix Go Kyocera 810084 If the configured sign-in method on the printer is "Select automatically," users are prompted to sign in with card even if the printer does not have a card reader.
Printix Go Canon 807287

If the Personal Settings and Device Settings on a Canon printer are set to different languages, some parts of the printer's interface are translated to one language, and other parts to another.

Workaround: Set the same language in the Personal Settings and Device Settings.

Printix Go Canon 733128

After installing Printix Go on a Canon printer, the user is unable to immediately log in, and the printer displays the following error: Login failed.

Workaround: Wait 60 seconds or press the printer's Reset button.

Printix Go Canon Capture 706952 If a user performs a scan on a Canon printer, the operation does not appear in the printer's history.
Printix Go Canon Capture 706381 If a user starts to scan a new document while a previously scanned document is still being processed by the printer, the printer may display the following error: Capture failed (N%). Reason: Printer is busy.
Printix Go Canon Capture 632697

During capture, if the user does not select any option for 15 minutes and the inactivity timeout on the printer is off, the screen becomes unresponsive and displays a Loading message indefinitely.

Workaround: Restart the printer. To avoid this issue in the future, set an inactivity timeout on the printer.

Printix Go Xerox Capture 546983 If the Everything else setting is locked in the Go configuration, the logged-in user gets the following error when scanning: Capture failed (Scan). Reason: Scan failed.
Printix Go Canon 514803

By default, Canon printers are unable to use the IPP and IPPS protocols.

Workaround: Configure the printer to use the required protocols. See How to configure Canon printers to use IPP/IPPS protocol.

Printix Go Brother Capture 452004

If a Brother printer that supports A3 (such as Brother MFC-J6957DW) attempts to scan an A3 page, it may produce an A4 image instead.

Workaround: Update the device firmware to the latest version and verify that the scan settings are configured for A3. If the issue persists, refer to the printer's documentation or contact Brother support.

Printix Go Canon 433412 If a Canon printer is set to the Simplified Chinese language, the Latin characters have spaces between them.
Printix Go Brother 197424

During the installation of Printix Go Brother, the SNMP settings of the Printix Go sign-in profile are used instead of the SNMP settings of the printer. This can make the installation fail.

Workaround: Do one of the following:

  • Update the default SNMP profile to V3.

  • Select an SNMPv3 profile when creating the sign-in profile.

Printix Go Ricoh Capture 197245 Scanning a large document fails on a Ricoh printer if the capture process exceeds 10 minutes.
Printix Go Ricoh without Printix Client 195561 Print rules do not work with the clientless version of Printix Go Ricoh.
Printix Go Kyocera N/A When using capture, if you use "Select automatically" for the paper size, A4 paper size is used.
Printix Go Ricoh Capture N/A

Printix Go Ricoh Capture may fail when scanning large documents (reported with a 130-page document). This can happen if the network connection between the printer and the Printix Client computer is slow. In Printix Administrator History, you may see a message such as: Error: Capture failed (Processing and creation of PDF). Reason: Failed processing scanned files.

Printix Go Epson N/A

Upon entering an invalid ID code or PIN code, the following message appears: (ec-204) Please try to reload the page or contact your administrator. Disconnecting a card reader does not remove it from the Printer properties page.

Other issues

Component ID Description
Power BI report 943948 On the "Workstations - Details" page, the links of workstations and print queues are not functional.
Power BI report 943336 On the "Job - History" page, the records are sorted by time incorrectly.
Printix App (web) 942321 If you are redirected to the Printix App, the language may be changed.
Printix Client for Mac 942315 The print release order is incorrect if you use secure print through the cloud.
Printix Client for Mac 942314 Even though secure print is disabled, users can use Print Anywhere to release documents.
Printix App (web) 942256 The Delete icon is not displayed sometimes when selecting multiple documents.
Printix Client for Windows 935457 After installing the Printix Client, if a user is connected to multiple Printix Homes with Microsoft Entra ID, the user receives an unauthorized error message when the user attempts to sign in to the Printix Client.
Printix Configurator 845477

When signing in to Printix Configurator, Printix Configurator is unable to connect to the selected Printix Home, and Printix Configurator continually displays "Login in progress." This issue occurs, because older versions of Printix Configurator attempt to use a port that is not available.

Workaround: Download version 2.4 or a newer version of Printix Configurator.

Printix App (web) 774283 Chinese Traditional and Chinese Simplified languages cannot be selected.
Printix App (web) 719303 The Printix App is not loaded if you are redirected from another place.
Lexmark Unified Client 582794

After installing Printix Go on a Lexmark printer, the printer's default sign-in method is ControlSuite if the printer has a Unified Client.

Workaround: Change the default sign-in method on the printer to Printix.

Lexmark Unified Client 571122

After uninstalling the Lexmark Unified Client, Printix Go is stopped. When attempting to start the Printix component on the printer's web page, the page displays the following error: There was a problem starting the solution: The application or one of its components failed to start because of an unknown reason.

Workaround: Reinstall Printix Go.

OmniPage 207110 While scanning a large document, OmniPage may cause the capture process to fail without displaying an error message.
Sign-in with Email N/A

The Sign-in session expired message may appear if the username and password are not entered in a timely manner, or if one or both of them are incorrect.

Workaround: Close the web browser tab and try to sign in again in a timely manner with the correct username and password. If you suspect your password is invalid, select Forgot password.

Universal Print N/A

Documents submitted via Universal Print are tracked as one-page documents.