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Installing Windows Printer Drivers
Configuring Printer Drivers
To use the CentreWare printer drivers most effectively, you will need to configure the drivers to reflect
options available on your Xerox system. You can configure the drivers in one of the following ways:
Preconfigure standard
device
and
document
settings in the driver prior to distributing them for
installation. This capability is available for Windows NT, 2000, and XP drivers only.
Configure installable options directly at a workstation.
Preconfiguring Default Driver Settings
(Windows NT / 2000 / XP / Server 2003)
You may want to standardize the default settings for your Windows printer drivers before making them
available for installation on individual workstations. There are two categories of driver settings that you
can preconfigure:
Device Settings—refers to installable options such as a High Capacity Feeder or a Finisher,
accounting options, etc.
Document Settings—refers to document options, such as a banner sheet, portrait or landscape
orientation, PostScript options, etc.
This preconfiguration process involves copying the printer driver files from the CentreWare Print and
Fax Drivers CD to a server installation directory, installing a driver on a workstation, selecting the
default device and document settings that you want to establish, saving those settings in the driver, and
copying the configuration file to the installation directory on the server to overwrite the previous
defaults.
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This process can be performed in both Windows and non-Windows network environments
(such as NetWare). To minimize impact to the server or potential down-time, first preconfigure an
individual workstation. After completing the preconfiguration process at the workstation, copy the files
to the server for distribution.
