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Change driver of network printer on local machine?
We have a bunch of computers in the office which connect to a Win2003SBS.
We have two Brother laser printers on our network. Is it possible for my computer to use a different printer driver for one of the printers or would I need our network consultant to login to the server and change the driver? The reason I ask is because there's two types of drivers.. PCL and BR-SCRIPT. The PCL offers more features. I'd like to start taking advantage of them. One of the features is a macro feature, which can store stuff in the printer memory, such as a letterhead you use often, so when you print something on the letterhead it'll print faster because that portion of your document is already in memory. |
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Change driver of network printer on local machine?
On 5/18/2010 10:10 AM, yuppicide wrote:
We have a bunch of computers in the office which connect to a Win2003SBS. We have two Brother laser printers on our network. Is it possible for my computer to use a different printer driver for one of the printers or would I need our network consultant to login to the server and change the driver? The reason I ask is because there's two types of drivers.. PCL and BR-SCRIPT. The PCL offers more features. I'd like to start taking advantage of them. One of the features is a macro feature, which can store stuff in the printer memory, such as a letterhead you use often, so when you print something on the letterhead it'll print faster because that portion of your document is already in memory. You will need to deal with the network people. If the printers are "stand alone", you may be able to use just local drivers, etc. If the printers use the network servers for queues, the queues may be added. Storing stuff on the printer in a queued situation may be difficult to accomplish, unless it is added at the beginning of a "job", and removed at the end. Printer control sequences to use the stored info can also be somewhat of a problem. The standard drivers and queue software & setup may not be able to accomodate such things. In other-words, you have a unique situation to some extent, due to your network configuration and hardware combination. In the old days, a programmer on the network staff would be assigned the task. Today, I have no idea who in your organization might be willing and able. If there is a cost saving, or improved use of existing resources, there may be some internal support available in larger corporations. |
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Change driver of network printer on local machine?
On 5/18/2010 10:10 AM, yuppicide wrote: We have a bunch of computers in the office which connect to a Win2003SBS. We have two Brother laser printers on our network. Is it possible for my computer to use a different printer driver for one of the printers or would I need our network consultant to login to the server and change the driver? The reason I ask is because there's two types of drivers.. PCL and BR-SCRIPT. The PCL offers more features. I'd like to start taking advantage of them. One of the features is a macro feature, which can store stuff in the printer memory, such as a letterhead you use often, so when you print something on the letterhead it'll print faster because that portion of your document is already in memory. You will need to deal with the network people. If the printers are "stand alone", you may be able to use just local drivers, etc. If the printers use the network servers for queues, the queues may be added. Storing stuff on the printer in a queued situation may be difficult to accomplish, unless it is added at the beginning of a "job", and removed at the end. Printer control sequences to use the stored info can also be somewhat of a problem. The standard drivers and queue software & setup may not be able to accomodate such things. In other-words, you have a unique situation to some extent, due to your network configuration and hardware combination. In the old days, a programmer on the network staff would be assigned the task. Today, I have no idea who in your organization might be willing and able. If there is a cost saving, or improved use of existing resources, there may be some internal support available in larger corporations. |
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Change driver of network printer on local machine?
Download "print migrator" from microsoft,it has those features & more..
"yuppicide" wrote: We have a bunch of computers in the office which connect to a Win2003SBS. We have two Brother laser printers on our network. Is it possible for my computer to use a different printer driver for one of the printers or would I need our network consultant to login to the server and change the driver? The reason I ask is because there's two types of drivers.. PCL and BR-SCRIPT. The PCL offers more features. I'd like to start taking advantage of them. One of the features is a macro feature, which can store stuff in the printer memory, such as a letterhead you use often, so when you print something on the letterhead it'll print faster because that portion of your document is already in memory. . |
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Change driver of network printer on local machine?
Download "print migrator" from microsoft,it has those features & more..
"yuppicide" wrote: We have a bunch of computers in the office which connect to a Win2003SBS. We have two Brother laser printers on our network. Is it possible for my computer to use a different printer driver for one of the printers or would I need our network consultant to login to the server and change the driver? The reason I ask is because there's two types of drivers.. PCL and BR-SCRIPT. The PCL offers more features. I'd like to start taking advantage of them. One of the features is a macro feature, which can store stuff in the printer memory, such as a letterhead you use often, so when you print something on the letterhead it'll print faster because that portion of your document is already in memory. . |
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Change driver of network printer on local machine?
you can get the ip address of the printer and install it as a local printer
with the driver of your choosing. start/settings/printers right click the printer and select properties click on Ports tab note the IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx "yuppicide" wrote: We have a bunch of computers in the office which connect to a Win2003SBS. We have two Brother laser printers on our network. Is it possible for my computer to use a different printer driver for one of the printers or would I need our network consultant to login to the server and change the driver? The reason I ask is because there's two types of drivers.. PCL and BR-SCRIPT. The PCL offers more features. I'd like to start taking advantage of them. One of the features is a macro feature, which can store stuff in the printer memory, such as a letterhead you use often, so when you print something on the letterhead it'll print faster because that portion of your document is already in memory. . |
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Change driver of network printer on local machine?
you can get the ip address of the printer and install it as a local printer
with the driver of your choosing. start/settings/printers right click the printer and select properties click on Ports tab note the IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx "yuppicide" wrote: We have a bunch of computers in the office which connect to a Win2003SBS. We have two Brother laser printers on our network. Is it possible for my computer to use a different printer driver for one of the printers or would I need our network consultant to login to the server and change the driver? The reason I ask is because there's two types of drivers.. PCL and BR-SCRIPT. The PCL offers more features. I'd like to start taking advantage of them. One of the features is a macro feature, which can store stuff in the printer memory, such as a letterhead you use often, so when you print something on the letterhead it'll print faster because that portion of your document is already in memory. . |
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