HP UPD - System Administrator's Guide HP UPD 5.6.5

Properties button (Windows 7, Server 2008R2, Windows 8, Server 2012) and then select the Drivers
tab. Methods available include:
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Add Driver—New driver installation, creating a new printer and adds driver version to the
Microsoft driver store.
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Replace driver (XP and Vista)—For the selected printer, replaces the currently used driver with a
driver of the same name taken from the Microsoft driver store.
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Print Management Console—For Windows 7, Server 2008R2, Windows 8, and Server 2012, from the
Control Panel select Administrative Tools and then select Print Management. The Print Management
Console enables you to install, view, and manage all of the printers in your organization. See Microsoft
documentation.
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PrintUI—Allows common print administration tasks from a command prompt or script, including
adding a new printer, delete existing printing, add or remove host connections.
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pnputil—Add or remove HP UPD (use with Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 2008 R2,
and Windows Server 2012). Allows addition of the driver to the driverstore, but does not create a
printer.
HP Driver Deployment Utility—This method can be used for installation in traditional mode. This utility
packages pre-configured HP UPD installation files, and the code needed to deploy them, into an *.EXE and a
*.CAB file. These files are run on the client PC to copy the driver files to the Windows driver store, and
optionally, install the printer.
HP Web Jetadmin—This method can be used for installation in traditional mode. Administrators can create,
edit, and delete printers and install or update print drivers by using the Print Management features in HP Web
Jetadmin.
Point and Print—This method can be used for installation in traditional mode. The HP UPD can be vended
from a server to clients connected to a shared printer, performing either a new printer install or driver
upgrade.
NOTE: HP UPD also supports USB Plug and Play, which is not an installation method for the driver, but
instead a method for an already installed print driver to create a new printer instance in the printer's folder.
Explanation of driver name
During a new driver install, or when changing the driver version of an installed HP UPD printer, you can select
either the version-specific option (for example HP Universal Printing PCL 5 (v5.2)), or the non-version-specific
option (for example, HP Universal Printing PCL 5). These two choices are defined by HP and read directly from
the driver hpcuxxxx.inf file. Selecting either option installs the same set of capabilities. The version-specific
option is available so that you can install different driver versions on the same server (a v5.0 driver can
coexist with a v5.2 driver). With HP UPD v5.4.5 and higher, you can also install different minor release
versions. With earlier versions, this is not possible. For example, you cannot install a v5.2.5 driver and v5.2.6
driver on the same server, because these are the same major.minor release version (v5.2).
NOTE: Starting with HP UPD v5.5.0, the driver supports a major.minor.subminor release version. For
HP UPD 5.4 and previous releases, a customer will not benefit from this change. With this change, you can
install a HP UPD 5.6.0 driver and HP UPD 5.6.5 driver on the same server.
The installation option to select the version specific HP UPD driver name applies only to traditional mode
installations. Implementation options include the following:
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