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Chapter 3 Silent Installation
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Silent Installation
ThischapterdescribestheproceduresfortheSilentInstallation.
What Is a Silent Installation?
ThesilentinstallationisamethodthatcopiestheexistingAPDsetupenvironmenttoother
computerswithoutuseroperation.Therearethefollowingtwomethods.
❏ Usingasilentinstallationpackage(*.exe)
Createthesilentinstallationpackageonthecopysourcecomputer.
 Executingthisfileonanothercomputerenablesyoutoinstall
theminimumenvironment
foroperatingtheAPDfromalltheenvironmentofthecopysourcecomputer.
 Whenthesilentinstallationisexecutedwiththisfile,youcannotcreatethesilent
installationpackageorthescriptfileforthesilentinstallation,oraddanotherprinter.
❏ Usingascriptfile(*.inf)forthe
silentinstallation
Createthescriptfileforthesilentinstallationonthecopysourcecomputer.
 ExecutingthisfileandtheAPDfile(APD_4xxSA_T81.exe)onanothercomputerenables
youtoinstallthecompleteAPDenvironmentofthecopysourcecomputer.
 Intheenvironmentinwhichthesilentinstallationisexecutedwiththisfile,youcancreate
thesilentinstallationpackageorthescriptfileforthesilentinstallation,andyoucanalso
addanotherprinter.
Withthisfunction,youcanincorporatetheAPDinstallationintoabatchfile,arecoverydiscfor
theOS,andaninstallerofanapplication.
Also,youcan
addthecommandoptionsforthesilentinstallationtoenablethefollowing
functions.
 Notificationwhencompletingtheinstallation
 Restartsettingaftercompletingtheinstallation
 Upgradeinstallationsettings
 Installingwithoutdisplayingscreens.
Thismethodisusefulespeciallyinthefollowingcases:
 Youcanmakethesamesettingtomultiplecomputerseasily.
 Evencomputerswithnodisplayscanbesetup.
 Incaseofprintingtrouble,theAPD enviro nm entofthecom puter withanerror can berecreatedonanother
computerbyusingthescriptfileforthesilentinstallationofthatcomputer,anditimprovestheserviceand
maintenancefunction.(Intheenvironmentinwhichthesilentinstallationisexec uted with
thesilent
installationpackage,thescriptfileforthesilentinstallationcannotbecreated.)
 To use the silent installation, Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later is required.
 When APD3 or APD4 have been already installed in the target computers, uninstall
those before the silent installation.