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9. If you selected the Connected via the network installation method, the following screen will
appear at the conclusion of the software installation:
Figure 3-6 Software Installation — Driver Installation Complete screen 2
Point and Print installation for Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, and Vista
The following information helps you install a print driver by using the Microsoft Point and Print function
when you cannot see the product on the network.
Point and Print is a Microsoft term that describes a two-step driver installation process:
1. Install a shared driver on a network print server.
2. "Point" to the print server from a network client so that the client can use the print driver.
Hewlett-Packard provides drivers that are compatible with the Point and Print feature, but this is a
function of the Microsoft operating systems, not of HP print drivers. Windows 2000, Windows XP,
Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista drivers from HP are supported only on Intel x86 processor
types.
In a homogenous operating system environment (clients and servers running the same operating
system), the same print driver version that is vended from the server to the clients in a Point and Print
environment also runs and controls the print queue configuration on the server.
However, in a mixed operating system environment (servers and clients running different operating
systems), conflicts can occur when client computers run a version of the print driver that is different from
the one on the print server.
In an effort to increase operating system stability, Microsoft determined that in Windows 2000 and all
future operating systems, print drivers would run as user-mode processes. User-mode drivers run in a
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