
49
HP UPD name selection
Figure 5-1 Selecting version specific driver in Add Printer Wizard
The first option, "HP Universal Printing PCL 6," refers to the non-version-specific HP UPD. Installing this option will
install or upgrade all printers using the generic (non-version) of the HP UPD to the driver version being installed. For
example, if HP UPD v5.8.0 is installed on the system as "HP Universal Printing PCL 6" and the administrator installs
the HP UPD v5.9.0 PCL 6 selecting the non-version HP UPD during install, every printer using the driver name "HP
Universal Printing PCL 6" will be upgraded.
The second option, "HP Universal Printing PCL 6 (vX.Y.Z)", referred to as the version-specific HP UPD, creates a
version-specific driver name instance of the HP UPD. Selecting the version-specific driver name of the HP UPD does
not upgrade the HP UPD printers that have a different driver version assigned to the printer. This allows a print server
to have multiple driver versions of the HP UPD on a single system. For example, the following driver names could all
be on the same host:
HP Universal Printing PCL 6 (v6.3.0)
HP Universal Printing PCL 6 (v5.8.0)
HP Universal Printing PS (6.0.0)
HP Universal Printing PS
NOTE: Maintenance releases — HP UPD v5.4 and earlier only display Major.Minor version numbers in the MODEL
field, which becomes the printer model name. For example, “HP Universal Printing PCL 6 (v5.1)” displays in the
MODEL field for v5.1.x of the HP UPD. If v5.1.0 is installed followed by an installation of v5.1.1, all printers on the print
server using driver v5.1.0 would upgrade to v5.1.1. HP UPD v5.5.0 and later display Major.Minor.Subminor version
numbers in the MODEL field, which becomes the print model name. For example, HP Universal Printing PCL 6
(v5.4.0). With this change, you can install a UPD 5.6.0 driver and UPD 5.6.5 driver on the same server.
After the installation of different driver versions, all installed drivers will use the same version of unidrv.dll and
pscript5.dll (the latest version).
Printer name matches driver name—By default, the printer name will match the driver name defined in the
hpcuxxxx.inf file. For example, both the driver name and the printer name of the HP UPD are "HP Universal Printing
PCL 6 (v6.0.0)". HP recommends that administrator's change the printer's name to be different than the default
installed driver name.
Commentaires sur ces manuels