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Point and Print installation for Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003

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Microsoft Windows install Point and Print installation for Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 Use the following information to install a print driver through the Microsoft Point and Print function when you do not connect directly to the device 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 the feature is a function of the Windows operating systems, not of HP print drivers. Administrator privileges are necessary to install a print driver on a Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 operating system. In a homogenous operating system environment (one in which all of the clients and servers are running in 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 and software programs. A user-mode print driver that functions incorrectly can terminate (or "crash") only the process in which it is running-not the whole operating system. Because access to critical system resources is restricted, overall operating system stability is increased. Set a default printer This section applies to the Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. 1. In Windows 2000, click Start, click Settings, and then click Printers. In Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Printers and Faxes (Windows XP Professional) or Printers and Other Hardware Devices (Windows XP Home). In Windows Vista, click Start, click Control Panel, click Hardware and Sound, and then click Printer. 2. Right-click the device to set as the default. 3. Click Set As Default. A check mark appears next to the menu option. 106 Chapter 3 Install Microsoft Windows printing-system components ENWW

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Point and Print installation for Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and
Windows Server 2003
Use the following information to install a print driver through the Microsoft Point and Print function when
you do not connect directly to the device 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 the feature is
a function of the Windows operating systems, not of HP print drivers.
Administrator privileges are necessary to install a print driver on a Windows Vista, Windows 2000,
Windows XP, or Windows Server 2003 operating system.
In a homogenous operating system environment (one in which all of the clients and servers are running
in 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
and software programs. A user-mode print driver that functions incorrectly can terminate (or “crash”)
only the process in which it is running—not the whole operating system. Because access to critical
system resources is restricted, overall operating system stability is increased.
Set a default printer
This section applies to the Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003
operating systems.
1.
In Windows 2000, click
Start
, click
Settings
, and then click
Printers
.
In Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, click
Start
, click
Control Panel
, and then click
Printers
and Faxes
(Windows XP Professional) or
Printers and Other Hardware Devices
(Windows XP
Home).
In Windows Vista, click
Start
, click
Control Panel
, click
Hardware and Sound
, and then click
Printer
.
2.
Right-click the device to set as the default.
3.
Click
Set As Default
. A check mark appears next to the menu option.
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