Installing and sharing Printers

The first step in creating a print server for your organization involves installing the print server feature, printer drivers, and printer ports to the print server. Once you do that, you can create and share printers for others to access. In this recipe, you download and install two Xerox printer drivers. This recipe uses one of the drivers, while you use the second in the Changing printer drivers recipe. This Internet download comes as a .ZIP archive that you must extract before using the drivers.

Note: if you're using this recipe to support other printer makes and models, you may need to make some changes. In some cases, such as with some Hewlett-Packard printers, the manufacturer designed the printer drivers to install them by running a downloadable executable. You must run the downloaded executable on each print server to add the necessary drivers. Thus, this recipe may not apply to all printing devices.

Getting ready

You run this recipe on PSRV...