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Drivers are software that allow the hardware to communicate with the operating system. So drivers are essential when we install any piece of equipment to a computer. When we install it into the computer or when we install it connected to the computer we have to have drivers to able to tell the hardware how it is going to communicate with the operating system. So printer drivers are specific to the printer to the software and some times they are updated. So we have the same print device but have different printer drivers. This becomes more important when we start taking about setting up printer pools, but it is important to know about drivers and what drivers do for the system. In particular we are going to focus on printer drivers in this section. So drivers are software that allow hardware communicate with the operating system. They are installed as a part of installing the hardware. So let us take a look at our printer again and let us take a look at the general tab in the printer. We can tell that this is bills printer. Now if we take a look at the advanced tab we can then set a new driver for this printer if we chose to. In other words if there is a new driver available, we have got a button. Click on new driver, which takes to the add printer driver that is click on next and we right into the wizard for printer driver selection. This looks very much like what we looked at we install the printer begin with, but we can actually change drivers if we have received say a new disk and somebody says hey if you install this **** you should be able to this top of everything that it is doing. When we go to the advanced tab make sure on the right printer first, I go into the general tab, then go to the advanced tab and then we would click on have disk. Click on new printer driver click on have disk and then we can browse to anywhere in the computer where we have put that disk. So we can look in and go to our CD, go to wherever we have put that disk and install the drivers form there. So this is how we would update or cancel out of here this is we update a printer driver should we need to. We need to be careful when we update the printer driver that we don't install a driver that doesn't work at all. Let us not ***** that particular printer, so this is what we highly recommend that make sure of the printer that you run which is in the general tab before you start making any changes to advanced settings. We are going to spend more time in this advanced area because there are many different things we can do from here and first when we are going to take a look at setting up printer locations. That is next.
| Course: | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (70-290) |
| Author: | Bill Ferguson/Certified Instructor |
| SKU: | 33497 |
| ISBN: | 1932072918 |
| Release Date: | 2004-06-03 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 107 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |