Once you set up a printer, as shown in the recipe Installing and sharing a printer, users can use the printer and its associated driver to print their documents. You may need to change the driver to change the printer model or to update the driver. In the Installing and sharing a printer recipe, you installed an NEC Color MultiWriter Class Driver, which works with many NEC color printers. But suppose you decide to replace this printer with a different printer model from a different vendor, say an HP color laser printer.
In this recipe, you change the driver for the printer. The assumption behind this recipe is that the printer name and printer port (the printer's IP address and port number) remains constant. You might need to change the printer driver for a printer, should you replace an old printer for a newer or different printer (for example, replacing...