HP DesignJet Z5400 System Administrator s Guide - Page 16

HP DJ UPD SAG installation default of "HP Designjet Universal Printing [PDL]" or "HP Designjet Universal Printing [PDL] (vX.Y)" will be applied. If a printer with the default name exists on the system, "(Copy 1)" will be appended to the HP Designjet UPD default name. ● After installation, the printer name can be viewed or changed in the Printer's folder by selecting the printer and right mouse clicking Printer Properties. The Name field is located at the top of the General tab. Benefit of HP DJ UPD version name installation: For shared printers (i.e. print servers) HP recommends implementation of the version specific driver name. The version specific model selection during HP DJ UPD installation allows control over the upgrade and migration strategies. Multiple versions of the HP DJ UPD could exist on the same system. For example v4.7, v5.0 and v5.1 could all coexist on the same system assuming each was installed choosing the version specific driver name. This benefit allows customers to upgrade drivers for newly released HP devices without having to re-test or re-certify legacy devices for every new release of the driver. For instance, assume a print server has 100 existing printers installed all using the 5.0 version of HP Designjet Universal Printing HP-GL/2. Further, assume that new HP Designjet printers have been purchased and only support v5.1 of the HP DJ UPD. The administrator can create new printers using the HP DJ UPD v5.1 version specific installation without affecting existing 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 driver name ● Best practice-upgrade Settings retention: The settings retained during an upgrade are dependent upon how the driver was first installed. If the Printer was installed with the non-version specific HP DJ UPD, driver settings will be retained during the upgrade. If the printer was installed with the version specific HP DJ UPD, some settings may not be retained during the upgrade. Those settings not retained will assume the defaults of the newly installed driver. Upgrade Steps: HP recommends the following steps to upgrade the HP DJ UPD on print servers. These steps complete a sequence of events to ensure the administrator's personal print settings are not applied to the printer during the driver version upgrade. The settings applied become the default settings of the shared printer and Point and Print clients, and all file changes as a result of driver upgrade are completely registered to the system. The steps are not scriptable using supported methods, and are dependent upon environment size; this should be accounted for in project planning. After upgrading the system to a new driver version, it is recommended to reboot the system to force replacement of locked files shared by the Microsoft print system. Assign the newly installed driver version to the existing HP DJ UPD printers.  Example steps provided: From the Printers folder, select Printer Properties for the HP DJ UPD printer, and click the Advanced tab. Change the driver to the newly installed HP DJ UPD version. For example, if the printer name is currently set to "Corridor 2- Marketing Dept", change the Driver selection to "HP DJ Universal Printing HP-GL/2 (v5.1)" to and click OK to assign the printer name to the new driver version.  Figure 5-3 Assign newly installed driver to existing HP DJ UPD printers 16