Point and Print installation of the custom printer driver
SMB printing (also known as Windows or WINS printing) allows you to install custom PostScript printer drivers on your Windows client computer with Point and Print.
When you install a custom printer driver using Point and Print and it is shared across 32 and 64-bit platforms, you need to install the non operating system/platform specific, also referred to as "non-native", driver first, and then the operating system/platform specific, also referred to as "native", driver on the Fiery server or system from where the Print queue is shared.
For example, when you are setting up a 64-bit Fiery server for Print queue sharing, the administrator must install the 32-bit (non-native) driver first, and then the 64-bit (native) driver.
Keep in mind the following when installing the custom printer driver on a Windows 64-bit computer:
- If you want to setup sharing on a Windows Server 2012 R2 64-bit computer or on a Windows 8.1 64-bit computer, install the 32-bit driver on the Windows computer from Print Server properties, and then install the 64-bit driver through setup.exe of the customized driver package.
- If you want to setup sharing on Windows 8.1 32-bit computer, install the 64-bit driver on it from Print Server properties, and then install the 32-bit driver through setup.exe of the customized driver package.
- If you want to setup sharing on a Windows 7 64 bit computer, install the 32-bit driver by accessing its Print Server properties from a Windows XP 32-bit computer, and then install the 64-bit driver through setup.exe directly on the Windows 7 64-bit computer.
- If you want to setup sharing on a Windows 7 32-bit computer, install the 64-bit driver by accessing its Print Server properties from a Windows XP 64-bit computer, and then install the 32-bit driver through setup.exe directly on the Windows 7 32-bit computer.