UNIVERSAL PRINT DRIVERSystem Administrators Guide

HP Universal Print Driver

System Administrator's Guide

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Table of contents

1 Purpose and scope ......................................................................................................................................... 1Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 1Conventions used in this guide ............................................................................................................ 3HP UPD Supported products ............................................................................................................... 4

2 Software description ...................................................................................................................................... 9Introduction ........................................................................................................................................... 9System requirements ......................................................................................................................... 11Software availability ............................................................................................................................ 13

3 Plan an HP UPD deployment ....................................................................................................................... 15The five steps to a successful deployment ......................................................................................... 15Initiation and planning ........................................................................................................................ 16

Understand your printing requirements and environment .................................................. 16Determine deployment objectives ..................................................................... 16Print servers or Direct IP ................................................................................... 16Identify stakeholders ......................................................................................... 16Make an inventory ............................................................................................. 16Consider PDL needs ......................................................................................... 16Driver considerations ........................................................................................ 17Pre-configuration, policy and access requirements .......................................... 17Environment and network compatibility ............................................................. 17Baseline the system .......................................................................................... 17Risk management ............................................................................................. 17

Key deployment decisions ................................................................................................. 18Create a list of required drivers ......................................................................... 18Choose an installation method .......................................................................... 18Driver Pre-Configuration ................................................................................... 18Traditional and dynamic Mode .......................................................................... 19Manage the HP UPD with HP MPA or Active Directory Group Policy .............. 19Estimate time requirements .............................................................................. 19

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Communication and training ............................................................................................................... 20Training .............................................................................................................................. 20

Conducting a pilot ............................................................................................................................... 20Testing and Evaluation ....................................................................................................................... 20Deploy to production .......................................................................................................................... 20

4 Preconfigure the HP UPD ............................................................................................................................. 21Pre-configure the HP UPD using Install.exe ...................................................................................... 22Pre-configure the HP UPD using the HP Managed Printing Administration (HP MPA) ..................... 22Pre-configure the HP UPD using Group Policy Objects in Active Directory ....................................... 23Pre-configure the HP UPD using HP Driver Configuration Utility ....................................................... 24Pre-configure the HP UPD using HP Driver Deployment Utility (DDU) .............................................. 24Pre-configuration utilities and configurable functions ......................................................................... 25

5 Install and Uninstall of the HP UPD ............................................................................................................. 27Install or upgrade HP UPD version 5.1 and later ............................................................................... 28

Determine the HP UPD version installed ........................................................................... 28Microsoft Windows Driver Architecture .............................................................................. 28HP UPD Supported Upgrades ........................................................................................... 29HP UPD installation methods ............................................................................................ 29Explanation of driver name ................................................................................................ 31

Install .................................................................................................................................................. 32Download and unzip the HP UPD ...................................................................................... 32Windows client/server: Use the Add Printer Wizard .......................................................... 33Windows client/server: Use Install.exe .............................................................................. 34Windows client/server: Use the command prompt ............................................................ 35

Managing printer default settings ...................................................................... 35Default settings and changes are not managed ............................... 35Manage default settings with HP MPA ............................................. 36Manage default settings with Active Directory templates ................. 36

Configure default print settings while installing by command prompt install ..... 37Duplex .............................................................................................. 37Economode ...................................................................................... 37Private printing .................................................................................. 38Private printing with Pin .................................................................... 38Edgeline QAC ................................................................................... 39

Available command options .............................................................................. 39Discontinued switches and command options in install.exe ............................. 43

Windows client/server: Use Point and Print ....................................................................... 46Windows client/server: Use the HP Web Jetadmin Print Queue Creation ......................... 47Windows Cluster server environment ................................................................................ 47

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Alternative install with printer automatic configuration disabled ........................ 48Windows Terminal Server/Citrix environment .................................................................... 49

Versions of Terminal Server and Citrix supported by HP .................................. 49Known limitations of the HP UPD when u