The response file can be renamed, but it must be in the root directory of the installer package.
The name cannot contain spaces; spaces prevent the SETUP.EXE file from passing to the
installer package.
Command-line silent install
This method cannot be customized. It installs only the printing-system components that are
included in the Typical Installation. For more information, see the HP Device Installer
Customization Wizard ReadMe file. This document (CustomizationDoc.rtf) is available on the
printing-system software CD at the root of the <language> folder.
Point and Print installation for Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0,
2000, XP, and 2003
Point and Print is a Microsoft term that describes a two-step driver installation process. The
first step is to install a shared driver on a network print server. The second step is to "point"
to the print server from a network client so that the client can use the print driver.
This section outlines the procedures for installing print drivers by using Point and Print. If
these procedures are not successful, contact Microsoft.
Hewlett-Packard provides drivers that are compatible with the Point and Print feature, but
this is a function of the Microsoft operating systems, not of HP print drivers. Windows
NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 drivers from HP are
supported only on Intel X86 processor types. Any other processor types must use Windows
NT 4.0 drivers from Microsoft.
To install the print driver on a Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows
Server 2003 server, you must have administrator privileges. To completely install the
Windows NT 4.0 print driver on the Windows NT 4.0 server (or the Windows 2000 print
driver on the Windows 2000 server), you must have administrator privileges on the server.
The Windows NT 4.0 Printer .INF file (or the Windows 2000 Printer .INF file) must contain
the same product name as the Windows 98 or Windows Me printer .INF file.
Point and Print installation of a postscript driver is supported only with a Microsoft
Windows 98 or Windows Me PS driver version 4.0 or later.
In a homogenous operating system environment (one in which all of the clients and servers
running the same operating system), the same print driver version that is vended from the
server to the clients in a Point and Print environment also runs and controls the print queue
configuration on the server.
However, in a mixed operating system environment (one in which servers and clients might
run on different operating systems), conflicts can occur when client computers run a version
of the print driver that is different from the one on the print server. With Windows NT 4.0,
print drivers executed in kernel mode. A kernel mode process runs in a specially privileged
part of the operating system that gives the process access to all of the system resources.
Consequently, a misbehaving driver can cause serious system stability problems, including
operating system crashes. In an effort to increase operating system stability, Microsoft
determined that, starting with Windows 2000 and continuing with all future operating
systems, print drivers would run as user-mode processes. User-mode drivers execute in a
protected part of the operating system just like all of the normal end-user processes and
software programs. A user-mode print driver that misbehaves is capable of crashing only the
process in which it is running, and cannot crash the whole operating system. Because
access to critical system resources is restricted, overall operating system stability is
increased.
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