Installation of Printer Drivers

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Installation of Printer Drivers

(Last update of this topic: 12-02-2021)

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The installation of printer drivers has been considerably simplified in 5.2.

 

There are several options:

 

1.Installation of a printer driver by means of an *.inf-file on 1 target system
2.Installation of a printer driver by means of an *.inf-file on several target systems
3.Copying a printer driver from a source print server to one or more target print servers

 

Installation of a print server by means of an *.inf-file on 1 target system

 

For this purpose, uses the Windows-owned wizard comfortably guiding you through the installation of the printer driver on the target system.

You will find this function in the context menu of the tree under the print server, to which you wish to install a driver (see figure Availability via the context menu of a printer driver).

 

 

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Figure 160: Availability via the context menu of a printer driver

 

Installation of a printer driver by means of an *.inf-file to several target systems

 

There is a new interface in that can be called up via the respective entry in the context menu of the tree (see figures Availability via the context menu of all print servers and Selection of a printer driver and the print servers).

 

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Figure 161: Availability via the context menu of all print servers

 

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Figure 162: Selection of a printer driver and the print servers

 

 

Note

Printer Driver Selection

             

The printer driver must be available on a network path that can be accessed from the target print server.

 

converts network drives into UNC paths and are thus also possible.

 

Here, you now have the possibility to select an *.inf-file which is then copied to the selected target systems.

Furthermore, directly offers the possibility to transfer the selected printer drivers to an appropriate and associated backup print server.

 

Note

Listed Print Servers

             

In order to have a print server being listed in this view, several tests have to be passed successfully.:

 

1.The print server has to be displayed in the tree (See Authorizations in the steadyPRINT Center).
2.The print spooler of the print server has to be active (See Warming Up Time of the Print Spooler).
3.The user logged in to the Center has to be registered on the print server as a local administrator.

 

Note

Selection of the Target Print Servers

             

The printer driver is copied to all print servers selected in the upper table.