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down to the clients and stored in a cache that the HP UPD print driver refers to. The refresh rate inside the

HP MPA policy determines how often the HP UPD refers to the policy settings. This solution ensures that the

default settings are maintained throughout the printing environment.

Manage default settings with Active Directory Group Policy for HP UPD in dynamic

or traditional mode (with direct IP or USB)

The HP Active Directory Group Policy offers another way to ensure that the default settings are maintained

and managed. HP’s solution for printer policy settings using an existing Active Directory environment is to

use the Active Directory group policy objects. This allows an administrator to set defaults for duplex, and

grayscale printing. These policies are pushed locally into the users registry and referred to during printing.

This has the effect of constantly refreshing the users default setting so each time a user prints the correct

default settings are present. Policies are pushed to the client PCs. This has the effect of refreshing the

default printer settings automatically. Please refer to the sections on using HP MPA and the Active Directory

templates for further information.

NOTE: Active directory Group Policy does not support point and print installations.

Overview of configurable functions and pre-configuration

utilities

Table 4-1 Configurable functions and pre-configuration utilities on page 22 shows which utility, or utilities,

can be used to configure several commonly-used driver features. In some cases, more than one method will

need to be used depending on the combination of settings that are to be changed. For example, to enable

policy management and set the Watermarks to Username, use the INSTALL.EXE utility to enable policy

management and the HP DCU tool to set the default Watermark option.

Table 4-1 Configurable functions and pre-configuration utilities

Function INSTALL.EXE MPA/AD HP DCU HP DDU

Duplex (lock)XXXX

Economode X X X X

Job Storage (lock) X X X X

90Edgeline QAC X X X X

Color Access Control X X X

Enable Policy mgmt X

Status Notification Pop-

XXXX

Disable Printer

Automatic Configuration

Gray scale (lock) X X X

Paper size X X

Shortcuts X X

Watermarks X X

Orientation X X

Print quality X X

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