Bits and Dots : HP Universal Print Driver

UPD: HP Universal Print Driver 5.01 Released

Brian R. Kneebone — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:52:00 GMT

The HP Universal Print Driver 5 released earlier this summer. A maintenance release of this version corrects some items listed in the "Breaking News" tab of the HP Universal Print Driver site. Please review the following sources of information ...

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Win: Getting ready for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2

Brian R. Kneebone — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 01:13:00 GMT

As many IT administrators know, the launch of Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Server 2008 R2 are quickly coming around the corner. The MS Windows 7 wide release comes on the 22nd of October, 2009. I know most of my customers are looking forward to this release from Microsoft. Administrators managing devices such as printers, scanners, multifunction and all-in-one products will likely want to plan for compatibility and readiness ...

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DDU: Use the HP Driver Deployment Utility to preconfigure drivers, create network print queues and preserve WHQL

Brian R. Kneebone — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:00:00 GMT

A short time ago, Hewlett-Packard had released a utility called the "HP Driver Deployment Utility" (DDU) to the web. Previously the DDU was circulated privately amongst HP's enterprise customers. DDU was designed to be as agnostic as possible with most commercial LaserJet, Color LaserJet and Edgeline drivers including the HP Universal Print Driver. Here are its major features......(read more)

UPD: HP Universal Print Drivers Updated to Version 4.7

Brian R. Kneebone — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:30:00 GMT

In the category of "updates I would like to have posted earlier", I want to let everyone know that the HP Universal Print Drivers have been updated. Although if you are getting proactive alerts, you would have already known. This UPD update includes all versions (PCL5, PCL6 and PostScript) as well as all operating system bit depths (32-bit/x86 and 64-bit/x64)......(read more)