HP Color LaserJet CP3505 Printer - Software Technical Reference

Point and Print is a Microsoft term that describes a two-step driver installation process. The first step is
to install a shared driver on a network print server. The second step is to "point" to the print server from
a network client so that the client can use the print driver.
This section outlines the procedures for installing print drivers by using Point and Print. If these
procedures are not successful, contact Microsoft.
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 2000, Windows XP,
Windows Server 2003, and Windows Vista drivers from HP are supported only on Intel X86 processor
types.
To install the print driver on a Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, or Windows Vista
operating system, you must have administrator privileges. To completely install the Windows 2000 print
driver on the Windows 2000 server, you must have administrator privileges on the server.
Point and Print installation of a postscript driver is supported only with a Microsoft Windows 98 or
Windows Me PS Driver V4.0 or later.
In a homogenous operating system environment (one in which all of the clients and servers are running
in 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 (one in which servers and clients might run on
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.
In an effort to increase operating system stability, Microsoft determined that, starting with Windows 2000
and continuing with all future operating systems, print drivers would run as user-mode processes. User-
mode drivers run in a protected part of the operating system, as do all of the normal end-user processes
and software programs. A user-mode print driver that functions incorrectly can terminate (or “crash”)
only the process in which it is running—not the whole operating system. Because access to critical
system resources is restricted, overall operating system stability is increased.
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Modifying a pre-existing installation
If an HP Color LaserJet CP3505 printer has been installed previously on your system, the appearance
of the main install screen changes on the CD Browser, and the install setting changes to Modify
installation. A pre-existing installation also changes the sequence of installation screens that are
presented, depending on the selections you make.
Installer Customization Wizard for Windows
Administrators can use the Installer Customization Wizard option to customize the HP Color LaserJet
CP3505 installer by pre-setting the installation options in a response file. To start the utility, click Installer
Customization Wizard on the main menu of the software CD browser. Using this option, administrators
can create a silent (unattended) installer that is customized with any of the following selections:
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