HP Designjet Universal Print Driver - System Administrator's Guide

HP DJ UPD SAG
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Understand your printing requirements and environment
Determine deployment objectives
Description of the deployment objectives. The intent is to get a clear and detailed picture of
what the end result will be after the migration or upgrade.
Print servers or Direct IP
HP DJ UPD supports both client-server printing and direct IP printing.
For additional information on whether direct IP printing is right for you please refer to
Direct IP Printing with the HP Universal Print Driver available on www.hp.com.
Identify stakeholders
The stakeholders are anybody impacted by the plan. Stakeholders can include, but are not
limited to, the following groups.
● End users – Will there be downtime, what will change?
● IT staff – How much time and resources?
● Help Desk – What do they need to know?
Make an inventory
Make an inventory of all printing products, print servers, print queue names, printer drivers, IP
addresses, and printer languages that you are using. If you have print servers, you also need to
determine if all of the print queues are still active.
Driver considerations
Please consider the following to determine if the HP DJ UPD is the correct solution for your printing
environment.
● The HP DJ UPD is supported and tested on HP printers only. For non-HP
products, HP recommends using the driver supplied by the product
manufacturer.
● Not all HP printers are supported by the HP DJ UPD. The HP DJ UPD supports a wide range
of Designjet printers and MFPs. To obtain the latest list of HP DJ UPD supported
products, visit the following website: www.hp.com/go/designjetupd
Environment and network compatibility
Validate that the HP DJ UPD is compatible with your current environment and network
communication protocols. Make sure that the SNMP and mDNS protocols are not filtered or
blocked. The HP DJ UPD requires these protocols for product discovery and communication.
Baseline the system
Test that all printing applications are compatible with the HP DJ UPD. Run performance and
printing tests using “typical” documents.