# Enable Local Printer Redirection for Your WorkSpaces Applications Users
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With local printer redirection, your WorkSpaces Applications users can redirect print jobs from their streaming application to a printer that is connected to their local computer, including any network printers that the users have mapped. You don't need a printer driver installed on the WorkSpaces Applications streaming instance to enable users to print documents during their streaming sessions. 

**Note**  
Enabling local printer redirection is currently not supported for Linux-based stacks.

**Topics**
+ [Prerequisites for Local Printer Redirection](local-printer-redirection-prerequisites.md)
+ [How to Enable Local Printer Redirection](how-to-enable-disable-local-printer-redirection.md)
+ [How to Disable Local Printer Redirection](disable-local-printer-redirection.md)

# Prerequisites for Local Printer Redirection
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To ensure that your users can use local printer redirection, you must:
+ Use an image that uses a version of the WorkSpaces Applications agent released on or after July 30, 2020. For more information, see [WorkSpaces Applications Agent Release Notes](agent-software-versions.md).
+ Ensure that your users have WorkSpaces Applications client version 1.1.179 or later installed. For more information, see [WorkSpaces Applications Windows Client Release Notes](client-release-versions.md).
+ Ensure printer redirection is enabled on the stack that your users access for streaming sessions.

# How to Enable Local Printer Redirection
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By default, local printer redirection is enabled when the WorkSpaces Applications client is installed. However, if local printer redirection is not enabled on the stack that your users access for streaming sessions, you can enable it in the WorkSpaces Applications console by performing the following steps. 

**To enable local printer redirection by using the WorkSpaces Applications console**

1. Open the WorkSpaces Applications console at [https://console.aws.amazon.com/appstream2/home](https://console.aws.amazon.com/appstream2/home).

1. In the left navigation pane, choose **Stacks**.

1. Choose the stack for which you want to enable local printer redirection.

1. Choose the **User Settings** tab, and then expand the **Clipboard, file transfer, print to local device, and authentication permissions** section.

1. For **Print to local device**, verify that **Enabled** is selected. If not, choose **Edit**, and then choose **Enabled**.

1. Choose **Update**.

Alternatively, you can enable local printer redirection by using the WorkSpaces Applications API, an AWS SDK, or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

# How to Disable Local Printer Redirection
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To disable local printer redirection follow these steps.

**To disable local printer redirection**

You can disable local printer redirection in any of the following ways:
+ During client installation on managed devices. For more information, see [Choose Whether to Disable Local Printer Redirection](install-client-configure-settings.md#disable-local-printer-redirection-client).
+ By using the WorkSpaces Applications console to disable this option on an WorkSpaces Applications stack.
+ By using the WorkSpaces Applications API, an AWS SDK, or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to disable this option on an WorkSpaces Applications stack.