HP DesignJet T795 System Administrator s Guide

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    HP DJ UPD SAG Designjet Universal Print Driver System Administrator's Guide 1
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    10 4 Installing and Uninstalling the HP Designjet UPD ...11 Supported Modifications of the Hewlett-Packard Designjet Universal Print Driver 11 Determine the HP DJ UPD version installed...11 Microsoft Windows Driver Architecture ...11 HP DJ UPD Supported Upgrades ...12 HP DJ UPD installation methods
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    ) Agents, Support Engineers, System Administrators, Management Information Systems (MIS) Personnel, and Printer Users. This guide includes the following information:  Procedures for installing and uninstalling the HP Designjet Universal Print Driver.  Descriptions of the HP Designjet Universal
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    HP Designjet T520 36in HP Designjet T790 24in HP Designjet T790ps 24in HP Designjet T790 44in HP Designjet T790ps 44in HP Designjet T795 44in HP Designjet T795ps 44in HP Designjet T920 HP Designjet T920 PostScript HP Designjet T1300 HP Designjet T1300 PostScript HP Designjet T1500 HP Designjet T1500
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    available in 13 languages.  The HP Universal Print Driver supports HP-GL/2 and PostScript printer languages.  By providing real-time print job and print product information, the HP Designjet Universal Print Driver empowers you to resolve common problems yourself, and place fewer calls to the
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    HP DJ UPD SAG Table 2-1 HP Designjet UPD supported languages Catalan Italian Portuguese (Brazilian) Traditional Chinese English Japanese Russian French Korean Simplified Chinese German Polish Spanish 6
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    DJ UPD SAG 3 Plan an HP Designjet UPD deployment This chapter is designed to help you make strategic deployment decisions as you integrate the HP DJ UPD into your printing environment. The deployment of the HP DJ UPD is unique based upon your specific objectives and current IT infrastructure. This
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    printing environment. ● The HP DJ UPD is supported and tested on HP printers only. For non-HP products, HP recommends using the driver supplied by the product manufacturer. ● Not all HP printers are supported by the HP DJ UPD. The HP DJ UPD supports a wide range of Designjet printers and MFPs. To
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    ● Choose an installation method ● Estimate time requirements Create a list of required drivers ● HP DJ UPD ● Product specific drivers ● Non-HP products Choose an installation method HP DJ UPD can be installed using multiple methods including:  Add Printer Wizard  Microsoft Print Management Console
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    if there are other printer drivers on the system. Creating a print queue using an existing driver typically takes only 30-60 seconds support.microsoft.com/kb/832219 - Users cannot print after installing a service pack, updating rollup, or a printer hot fix on a server. Communication and training HP
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    except when explicitly instructed to do so by HP in writing, will result in an unsupported configuration.  HP DJ UPD should be deleted using only Microsoft-supplied tools and procedures. Manual deleting of registry entries and/or driver files is not recommended and not supported. See Uninstall the
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    to the installation environment. HP DJ UPD Supported Upgrades HP will support upgrading from one version of the HP DJ UPD to a newer version of the HP DJ UPD, starting with v1.0. Upgrading from a non HP Universal Print Driver to the HP Universal Print Driver, regardless of whether the version
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    are supported Calling the script with zero arguments When the script is executed without any argument, both the port and the driver path are driver name During a new driver installation, or when changing the driver version for an existing installed HP DJ UPD printer, two choices exist for the HP
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    . For example, the following driver names could all be on the same host: ● HP Designjet Universal Printing HPGL2 (v5.1) ● HP Designjet Universal Printing HPGL2 (v5.0) ● HP Designjet Universal Printing PS3 (v4.7) ● HP Designjet Universal Printing PS3 ● HP Designjet Universal Printing PS3 (v4.8) Some
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    customers that: ● Need new print driver features introduced in the release. ● Are experiencing symptoms from resolved defects documented in the release notes. ● Require support for recent Microsoft operating system releases. ● Require support for a new HP Designjet printer recently purchased and not
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    printers that use a previous version of the HP Designjet Universal Print Driver. Driver upgrade steps This section assumes the reader has an understanding of the following: ● Microsoft Windows driver architecture ● HP DJ UPD supported upgrades ● HP DJ UPD installation methods ● Explanation of
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    HP Designjet Universal Print Driver from the Microsoft Windows operating system. This is the safest method to uninstall print drivers. HP does not recommend manually editing the Windows Registry or manually deleting driver files. This can destabilize the printing environment and is not supported. HP
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    DJ UPD SAG 5 HP Designjet UPD Features and Use Cases Use Case Only one driver needs to be installed to support most of Designjet printer models currently available. Use Case 2 Case 2.1 Unversioned driver update: when a new driver is released supporting a new printer model, the user substitutes all
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    HP DJ UPD SAG Case 2.2 Versioned driver update: when a new driver supporting a new printer model is released, the user can install the new driver for the new printer without being forced to change the old driver being used by previous printers Update Current Printer Model functionality Current Model
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    HP DJ UPD SAG The motivation behind this functionality is that some IT administrators prepare their IT infrastructure even before unpacking the printers. To do that, they install the driver in the server and the final user computers. When the printers are ready and reachable through the network,
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    configuration of the printer. As the HP Designjet Printer specific drivers are Printer Model oriented instead of Feature oriented, in the Current Model combo box, all the printer models supported are also selectable just in case you require setting it manually. This functionality is useful in case
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    HP DJ UPD SAG If you click Apply but do not close the Printer Properties UI, and then you click the Preferences button, you will still get the older printer model. You need to close and reopen Printer Properties in order to get the new model from Preferences: 22
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    HP DJ UPD SAG Similarly if you change the printer model from the combo box and click on the Apply or OK buttons, applications that had
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    HP DJ UPD SAG 2) Not supported. The DJ UPD connected device is not supported 3) Printer model supported and the same as the previous one. The printer will not be modified. 4) Printer model supported and different from the previous one. The printer will be modified. 24
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    HP DJ UPD SAG User profile considerations for Current model Please note that model when he wants to print to a non-supported printer model. This Generic model offers a subset of common features that are common to the Designjet portfolio. There is a Generic Model for HP-GL/2 and one for PS3. 25
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    the printer specific driver versus the HP DJ UPD, depending when the printer (and the discrete driver) was released. The user may find some other differences such as the fact that the Services Tab has been removed from HP DJ UPD. Please note also that ePrint and Share does not support HP DJ UPD. 26
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    . Also the wordings of some features may be modified. Some features may also be moved inside the same tab. Below are four screenshots of the HP DJ UPD driver tabs driver, shown to reference expected behavior. 27
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    The most prominent features modified are: orientation, copies and collate, and page order. Services tab The Services tab has been removed from HP DJ UPD as it is not shipped with HP Designjet Utility. Internet links inside services tab are also not be available. Alerts The alerts information is not
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    HP DJ UPD SAG Appendix: Visual Basic Script HP_DJ_UPD_install command line script option explicit 'Main program Main Sub main Dim hostAddress, infFile, path, printer, platform, driverName,
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    HP DJ UPD SAG 'Get printer name from inf ReadInf infFile, printer if configVerbosity = 1 then printer end if wscript.echo "Installation Done" end sub This function allows the user to install new Driver and Printer on client ' Input Params: ' - printer: The Printer Name ' - infFile: Full
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    HP DJ UPD SAG if configVerbosity = 1 then wscript.echo strShellLine end if lShellResults = objShell.Run(strShellLine,1,True) if lShellResults = 1 then wscript.echo "Error on driver instalation. Contact with your IT administrator" ShowHelp end if end function This function allows the user to add
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    HP DJ UPD SAG ' - hostAddress: The printer IP address ' - strParamPath: The optional path where the installation files are located function ParseCommandLine(hostAddress, strParam, local, portName) Dim
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    end function This function recovers information from Driver instalation path ' Input Params: ' - path: The Path of the instalation files ' Output Parms: ' - infFile: The INF FSO.GetFolder(subpath) For Each aItem In objDir.Files If LCase(Right(Cstr(aItem.Name), 3)) = "inf" Then 35 HP DJ UPD SAG
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    HP DJ UPD SAG infFile = subpath + aItem.Name found = true exit for end if Next end if GetInfFile = found end function This function read the inf file to obtain information about driver ' Input Params: ' - strInfPath: The INF full path file ' Output Parms: ' - printer: The name of the printer
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    HP DJ UPD SAG Public Function CheckPrinterName(printerName) Dim index, candidateName candidateName = printerName index = 0 While CompareName(candidateName) index = index + 1 candidateName = printerName + " (Copy " + Cstr(index) + ")" Wend printerName = """" +
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    HP DJ UPD SAG objPrinter.Put_ msg = Err.Description On Error GoTo 0 If msg "" Then wscript.echo "Cannot share printer" & objPrinter.Name & ": " & msg End If End
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    HP DJ UPD SAG wscript.echo "The Folder "+ path +"does not exist." wscript.echo "Installation not done" wscript.quit(1) end if end function This function verifies
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    HP DJ UPD SAG wscript.echo "Usage:" wscript.echo " cscript.exe HP_DJ_UPD_install.vbs PortHost [path]" wscript.echo "Arguments:" wscript.echo " PortHost - The Printer IP address, path
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