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● Windows NT drivers show up as Windows NT drivers.
● Windows XP drivers show up as Windows NT or Windows 2000 drivers.
Note: Having Windows 2000/XP versions and NT versions of drivers with the same names installed on a PSA can
result in the loss of printer settings and functionality (e.g., inability to print in landscape mode or loss of
watermarks). To eliminate this risk of lost printer functionality, HP recommends two workarounds:
1. Install and distribute only NT printer drivers on the PSA for all of the NT, 2K, and XP clients; or
2. If print shares for both driver versions are required, create a separate share for each driver type on
separate PSAs. This only affects NT and 2K/XP printer drivers and not 9X drivers. 9X drivers can still be
installed along with NT or 2000/XP drivers.
For more information, please refer to the white papers on client migration from NT to 2K/XP clients (http://www.hp.
com/go/psa_whitepapers).
Driver Management Page
Field Name Description
Shows installed printer drivers
for
Specify an operating system to display printer drivers for that operating
system only. Or, select All Operating Systems to display all printer
drivers installed on the PSA.
Printer Drivers
List the printer drivers for the operating system specified above, or lists
all printer drivers if All Operating Systems is chosen.
Each driver can have only one name (the same as in the .ini file)
regardless of the number or type of printers associated with it.
If a driver is displayed in blue and preceded with a "~" (tilde), that
driver has been disabled either by the user (to prevent it from being
used) or by the system (in the case that it failed to initialize during its
installation). When a driver is disabled, it can be associated with a
printer but will not be downloaded to a client PC for point and print. (The
user will be prompted to install a driver locally.) When a client connects
to a print share with a disabled driver, it receives the name of the driver
to install and a prompt requesting that the driver be installed.
If the administrator enables the driver, it will be available to clients
through point and print if the client connects to a print share associated
with that driver.
To enable a driver:
● If the driver was disabled by the user, click . The
driver can now be downloaded to a client's PC for point and print.
● If the driver had been disabled by the system due to a failure
during driver initialization, the administrator cannot enable this
driver until it is successfully initialized. (A failure might be
attributed to file corruption.) To initialize the driver, first try
installing the printer again. When asked for a printer driver,
consider using a different source for the printer driver in case the
original file was corrupted. If a driver is disabled by the system,
it must be installed again for it to be enabled (use the
Add Driver
wizard to install the driver again.)