Installing the Printer Drivers
Phaser® 8500/8550 Color Printer
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Installing the Printer Drivers
This section includes:
■ Available Drivers on page 2-9
■ Windows 98 SE or Later and Windows 2000 or Later on page 2-10
■ Macintosh OS 9.x on page 2-10
■ Macintosh OS X Version 10.2 and Higher on page 2-11
Available Drivers
To access special printing options, use a Xerox printer driver.
Xerox provides drivers for a variety of page description languages and operating systems. The
following printer drivers are available:
* Go to www.xerox.com/office/drivers
for the latest printer drivers.
Printer Driver Source* Description
Windows PostScript Driver CD-ROM and
Web
The PostScript driver is recommended to take
full advantage of your system's custom
features and genuine Adobe® PostScript®.
(Default printer driver)
PCL Driver Web only The Printer Command Language driver can
be used for applications requiring PCL.
Note: For Windows 2000 and Windows XP
only.
Xerox Walk-Up Printing Driver
(Windows)
Web only This driver enables printing from a PC to any
Xerox PostScript-enabled printer. This is
especially helpful for mobile professionals
who travel to multiple locations and need to
print to different printers.
Macintosh OS 9.x Driver CD-ROM and
Web
This driver enables printing from a Mac OS
9.x operating system.
Mac OS X (version 10.2 and
higher) Driver
CD-ROM and
Web
This driver enables printing from a Mac OS X
(version 10.2 and higher) operating system.
UNIX Driver Web only This driver enables printing from a UNIX
operating system.