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Managing and configuring printer drivers
Your system or network administrator can use the driver management and configuration
solution to configure printer drivers before you install and deploy them within your
environment. This is helpful when you configure printer drivers for multiple workstations or
products that share the same configuration.
When you preconfigure your printer driver to match the MFP hardware, you can gain
access to all of the MFP accessories through the driver. You can also configure most driver
feature settings. Five of the driver features can be "locked." This means that you can
choose not to allow users to change the duplex, print color as gray, input tray, output tray,
and media type settings. (Some features might not apply to all products. For example,
some products do not include color printing or duplexing.)
The driver management and configuration solution saves time and reduces management
costs. Previously, if an administrator wanted to configure printer drivers, the configuration
had to be completed at each client workstation. Because the driver management and
configuration solution offers multiple configuration options, administrators can create a
single configuration, in a central location, that best fits their software installation and
deployment strategy.
The driver management and configuration solution also gives administrators more control
over their printing environment, because they can deploy drivers that share the same
configuration across an entire organization. They can use the "lock" feature to support
organization initiatives. For example, if a product includes a duplexer, locking the duplex
setting ensures that all print jobs are printed on two sides to save paper. All of the controls
can be deployed from a single computer.
Three methods are available:
● HP Web Jetadmin software plug-in
● customization utility
● silent installer
Regardless of the configuration method that is used, one configuration can be shared by
all printer drivers for a given product model with one pass through either the plug-in or the
utility. The single configuration provides support for multiple operating systems, printer
driver languages, and localized language versions.
A single configuration file is associated with all supported drivers, and can be modified by
using either the plug-in or the utility.