HP 4250 manual Psawhitepapers, Client side rendering

If the driver persistently fails to initialize then the printer created can still be used, but when clients connect to that printer they will be prompted to install the driver files for that driver locally. The end user will be required to provide driver files for a driver whose name matches the name of the driver associated with the printer on the PSA.

Note: Having Windows 2000/XP versions and NT versions of drivers with the same names installed on a PSA can result in the loss of printer settings and functionality (e.g., inability to print in landscape mode or loss of watermarks). To eliminate this risk of lost printer functionality, HP recommends two workarounds:

1. Install and distribute only NT printer drivers on the PSA for all of the NT, 2K, and XP clients; or

2. If print shares for both driver versions are required, create a separate share for each driver type on separate PSAs. This only affects NT and 2K/XP printer drivers and not 9X drivers. 9X drivers can still be installed along with NT or 2000/XP drivers.

For more information, please refer to the white papers on client migration from NT to 2K/XP clients (http://www.hp.com/go/

psa_whitepapers).

To initialize or reset drivers that are already installed on the PSA, highlight the driver and click Initialize.

Client side rendering (CSR) is a process built into a new architecture of printer drivers for 2K and XP clients called Unidriver. If the printer driver you are installing is a Unidriver and you are having problems with any if the following advanced printing features then use the CSR version of the printer driver to see if it resolves your printing problems.

	● N-up (printing multiple pages in a reduced format on one page)
	● booklet style (format the print job into a printed booklet)
	● watermark (print a watermark on each page of the document)
Client side rendering	● ZoomSmart (scales a letter-sized/A4 document or poster to
	tabloid/A3, or vice versa)
	● back-to-front (prints the document in reverse order)
	● rotate 180 degrees (rotates the document layout but not the
	paper)
	To see client side rendering drivers, select this option.
	Note: Print queues using the CSR driver are not compatible with NT
	clients.