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Distribution The installation package is now ready for distribution. It is the same as the package on the CD, except that it is limited to one language, and it contains the features and options that you selected. The installation package is run silently so that it requires no user interaction. This installation method is useful when you want to use the default selections that the installer provides or when you want to run the installation without being prompted. You can perform the silent installation in two ways: ● Customized silent installer ● Command-line silent installer The response file can be renamed, but it must be in the root directory of the installer package. The name cannot contain spaces; spaces prevent the SETUP.EXE file from passing to the installer package. The end-user cannot customize the command-line silent installer. It installs only the printing-system components that are included in the Typical Installation. For more information, see the HP Device Installer Customization Wizard. This document (CUSTOMIZATION_README_XXWW.RTF) is available on the printing-system software CD at the root of the folder. Point and Print installation for Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, and Server 2003 The following information helps you install a print driver by using the Microsoft Point and Print function when you cannot see the product on the network. Point and Print is a Microsoft term that describes a two-step driver installation process. The first step is to install a shared driver on a network print server. The second step is to "point" to the print server from a network client so that the client can use the print driver. This section outlines the procedures for installing print drivers by using Point and Print. If these procedures are not successful, contact Microsoft. Hewlett-Packard provides drivers that are compatible with the Point and Print feature, but this is a function of the Microsoft operating systems, not of HP print drivers. Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 drivers from HP are supported only on Intel X86 processor types. To install the print driver on a Windows 2000,Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 operating system, you must have administrator privileges. To completely install the Windows 2000 print driver on the Windows 2000 server, you must have administrator privileges on the server. The Windows 2000 Printer .INF file must contain the same product name as the Windows 98 or Windows Me printer .INF file. Point and Print installation of a postscript driver is supported only with a Microsoft Windows 98 or Windows Me PS Driver V4.0 or later. In a homogenous operating system environment (one in which all of the clients and servers running the same operating system), the same print driver version that is vended from the server to the clients in a Point and Print environment also runs and controls the print queue configuration on the server. However, in a mixed operating system environment (one in which servers and clients might run on different operating systems), conflicts can occur when client computers run a version of the print driver that is different from the one on the print server. In an effort to increase operating system stability, Microsoft determined that, starting with Windows 2000 and continuing with all future operating systems, print drivers would run as user-mode processes. Usermode drivers run in a protected part of the operating system, as do all of the normal end-user processes Installation in Windows 276 Chapter 5 Installing Windows printing-system components ENWW

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Distribution
The installation package is now ready for distribution. It is the same as the package on the CD, except
that it is limited to one language, and it contains the features and options that you selected. The
installation package is run silently so that it requires no user interaction. This installation method is useful
when you want to use the default selections that the installer provides or when you want to run the
installation without being prompted.
You can perform the silent installation in two ways:
Customized silent installer
Command-line silent installer
The response file can be renamed, but it must be in the root directory of the installer package. The name
cannot contain spaces; spaces prevent the SETUP.EXE file from passing to the installer package.
The end-user cannot customize the command-line silent installer. It installs only the printing-system
components that are included in the Typical Installation. For more information, see the
HP Device
Installer Customization Wizard
. This document (CUSTOMIZATION_README_XXWW.RTF) is
available on the printing-system software CD at the root of the
<language>
folder.
Point and Print installation for Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, and Server 2003
The following information helps you install a print driver by using the Microsoft Point and Print function
when you cannot see the product on the network.
Point and Print is a Microsoft term that describes a two-step driver installation process. The first step is
to install a shared driver on a network print server. The second step is to "point" to the print server from
a network client so that the client can use the print driver.
This section outlines the procedures for installing print drivers by using Point and Print. If these
procedures are not successful, contact Microsoft.
Hewlett-Packard provides drivers that are compatible with the Point and Print feature, but this is a
function of the Microsoft operating systems, not of HP print drivers. Windows 2000, Windows XP, and
Windows Server 2003 drivers from HP are supported only on Intel
X
86 processor types.
To install the print driver on a Windows 2000,Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 operating system,
you must have administrator privileges. To completely install the Windows 2000 print driver on the
Windows 2000 server, you must have administrator privileges on the server. The Windows 2000
Printer .INF file must contain the same product name as the Windows 98 or Windows Me printer .INF
file.
Point and Print installation of a postscript driver is supported only with a Microsoft Windows 98 or
Windows Me PS Driver V4.0 or later.
In a homogenous operating system environment (one in which all of the clients and servers running the
same operating system), the same print driver version that is vended from the server to the clients in a
Point and Print environment also runs and controls the print queue configuration on the server.
However, in a mixed operating system environment (one in which servers and clients might run on
different operating systems), conflicts can occur when client computers run a version of the print driver
that is different from the one on the print server.
In an effort to increase operating system stability, Microsoft determined that, starting with Windows 2000
and continuing with all future operating systems, print drivers would run as
user
-mode processes. User-
mode drivers run in a protected part of the operating system, as do all of the normal end-user processes
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Chapter 5
Installing Windows printing-system components
ENWW
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