HP Designjet Universal Print Driver - System Administrator's Guide

HP DJ UPD SAG
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1 Purpose and scope ........................................................................................................................................................ 3
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Conventions used in this guide ..................................................................................................................................... 3
HP Designjet UPD Supported products ........................................................................................................................ 3
2 Software description ..................................................................................................................................................... 5
Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................. 5
System requirements .................................................................................................................................................. 5
Software availability .................................................................................................................................................... 5
3 Plan an HP Designjet UPD deployment........................................................................................................................... 7
The five steps to a successful deployment .................................................................................................................. 7
Initiation and planning .................................................................................................................................................. 7
Understand your printing requirements and environment .......................................................................................... 8
Key deployment decisions ............................................................................................................................................ 9
Communication and training ....................................................................................................................................... 10
Training ...................................................................................................................................................................... 10
Conducting a pilot ....................................................................................................................................................... 10
Deploy to production ................................................................................................................................................. 10
4 Installing and Uninstalling the HP Designjet UPD ....................................................................................................... 11
Supported Modifications of the Hewlett-Packard Designjet Universal Print Driver ................................................. 11
Determine the HP DJ UPD version installed ............................................................................................................... 11
Microsoft Windows Driver Architecture ..................................................................................................................... 11
HP DJ UPD Supported Upgrades ................................................................................................................................ 12
HP DJ UPD installation methods ................................................................................................................................ 12
Explanation of driver name........................................................................................................................................ 13
Best practices — upgrade .......................................................................................................................................... 15
Driver upgrade steps .................................................................................................................................................. 16
Uninstall the HP UPD .................................................................................................................................................. 17
5 HP Designjet UPD Features and Use Cases .................................................................................................................. 18
Use Case ..................................................................................................................................................................... 18
Use Case 2 .................................................................................................................................................................. 18
Update Current Printer Model functionality .............................................................................................................. 19
Current model: setting it manually ............................................................................................................................ 21
Current model: setting it automatically..................................................................................................................... 23
User profile considerations for Current model .......................................................................................................... 25
Current model in client-server ................................................................................................................................... 25
Generic Printer ........................................................................................................................................................... 25
UI Features ................................................................................................................................................................. 26
Print Quality ............................................................................................................................................................... 26
Margins ....................................................................................................................................................................... 26
Document size............................................................................................................................................................ 26
Media Type ................................................................................................................................................................. 26
Differences with discrete driver ................................................................................................................................. 26
Features re-layout ..................................................................................................................................................... 27
Services tab ................................................................................................................................................................ 29
Alerts .......................................................................................................................................................................... 29
Appendix: Visual Basic Script .......................................................................................................................................... 31