Xerox 5500 manual Available Printer Drivers

Phaser® 5500 Laser Printer

Printer Drivers

This topic includes:

■"Available Printer Drivers" on page 1-9

■"Printer Driver Features" on page 1-10

Printer drivers enable your computer and printer to communicate and provide access to your printer features. Xerox makes driver installation easy with its Walk-Up Technology. For more information about printer drivers, see the video at www.xerox.com/office/drivers.

Available Printer Drivers

Xerox provides drivers for a variety of page description languages and operating systems. The following drivers are available:

Driver	Source*	Description
Windows PostScript Driver	CD-ROM and	The PostScript driver is recommended to take
	Web	full advantage of your printer's custom
		features and genuine Adobe® PostScript®.
		(Default driver)
PCL5e	CD-ROM and	The Printer Command Language driver can
	Web	be used for applications requiring PCL.
		Note
		Supported in all operating systems.
PCL6	CD-ROM and	The Printer Command Language driver can
	Web	be used for applications requiring PCL.
		Note
		For Windows 2000 and Windows XP only.
Xerox Walk-Up Printing Driver	Web only	This driver enables printing from a PC to any
(Windows)		Xerox PostScript-enabled printer. This is
		especially helpful for mobile professionals
		who travel to multiple locations and need to
		print to different printers.
Macintosh OS Driver	CD-ROM and	This driver enables printing from a Macintosh
	Web	OS 9.x or OS X (version 10.1 or higher).
UNIX Driver	Web only	This driver enables printing from UNIX
		operating systems.

*Find certain drivers on the Printer Installer and Utilities CD-ROMthat came with your printer. All of these drivers can be found on the web at www.xerox.com/office/drivers.

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