9. If you selected the Connected via the network installation method, the following screen will
appear at the conclusion of the software installation:
Figure 3-23 Software Installation — Driver Installation Complete screen 2
Point and Print installation for Windows
The following information helps you install a print driver by using the Microsoft Point and Print function
when you cannot see the product on the network.
Point and Print is a Microsoft term that describes a two-step driver installation process:
1. Install a shared driver on a network print server.
2. "Point" to the print server from a network client so that the client can use the print driver.
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 XP, Windows Server 2003,
Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 drivers from HP are supported only on Intel x86
processor types.
In a homogenous operating system environment (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 (servers and clients running 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.
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