HP Designjet Universal Print Driver - System Administrator's Guide

HP DJ UPD SAG
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Uninstall the HP UPD
HP recommends using Microsoft operating system utilities to remove the HP Designjet Universal Print
Driver from the Microsoft Windows operating system. This is the safest method to uninstall print drivers.
HP does not recommend manually editing the Windows Registry or manually deleting driver files. This
can destabilize the printing environment and is not supported.
HP recommends the following procedure to remove the HP DJ UPD:
1. Delete all printers that use the HP DJ UPD.
2. In the Devices and Printers folder, select any printer, and then click Print Server Properties.
3. From the Server Properties window, select the Drivers tab.
4. Select the HP DJ UPD driver(s) to be uninstalled, and click Remove.
NOTE: If Windows displays an error message that the driver is in use; stop and restart the print spooler using one
of the following methods:
▲ From a command prompt, type “net stop spooler” and then press Enter to stop the print spooler. Type
“net start spooler” and then press Enter to restart the print spooler.
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Open the Services applet in Control Panel (Start-Run-services.msc), select Print Spooler, and then click
Restart.
Once the print spooler has been restarted, repeat the steps above to remove the print driver.