I have been reading up quite a bit the last two days on HP and Xerox implementations of Universal Drivers.
In both HP's and Xerox's cases, during installation of the driver, you have two choices when you get to the driver selection dialog in the printer add process:
Naming Convention: Version-specifc ex:
Xerox GPD PS V3.7.469.9.0
Naming Convention: Non-Versioned: ex:
Xerox Global Print Driver PS
My understanding from the research I was predominately doing on HP’s implementation (which has been nightmarish when deploying some of our older HP printers with USB) was that using the generically named driver allows a simple driver-only upgrade in future.
In other words, if you go from version 1.1 to version 1.2 you can just install the new driver (without an add printer step) and if you have three Xerox printers all using the GPD PS generic named driver, they all are upgraded without having to go to printer properties and select the newly installed driver for each print queue
Is that the case?
We just got our replacement 9303 this morning and I started deploying the GPD PS and PCL6 drivers with the "non versioned" names to the first few workstations
Is that how you would do it?
I am envisioning a time when I could possibly push driver updates en-masse out to the workstations either with psexec or by group policy, or by windows print management from a server
Hopefully the process could be silent and have no end user UI interaction to complete.
Any help pointing me towards some knowledgebase articles of how this might be done would be great.