9.If you selected the Connected via the network installation method, the following screen will appear at the conclusion of the software installation:

Figure 3-23Software 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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