Being cheap bastards conscious of the support costs of maintaining device-specific printer drivers, HP has come up with the HP Universal Print Driver (UPD).
Works great on Microsoft Windows based print servers.
Absolute rubbish with Novell iPrint.
When you install a Windows based UPD, the UPD says to the printer
What features do you have?
With iPrint, the UPD software tries to speak to something called IPD, and NOT the printer. Because the UPD isn’t speaking to the printer, it fails to determine what features your printer has. In the worse case, your printer won’t print.
HP have known about this issue since at least July, and we’re not seen a fix yet.
Shame really. The CP6015 would have been a nice printer.
Ref(s):
iPrint – Vista – HP UPD – Supported- – NOVELL FORUMS (July 2008)
Novell Support TID 7001400- iPrint and HP Universal Printer Drivers (Sept 2008)
On this day..
- When it becomes an addiction - 2009
Try with the latest UPD – you can stop the chatter if you fiddle with the driver first using the driver preconfiguration tool.. Late out it was supposed to be ealry October, and the new iprint client too.
HP Universal Print Driver (UPD) works very well with Novell.
Please fidn the info on Novell Support site.
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?ex...
Hope this will helps to all, who have issues with HP UPD on Novell environemnt.
Thanks
Nitin kohli
UPD Specialist
“HP Universal Print Driver (UPD) works very well with Novell.”
No, it does not.
As I explain here:
http://blog.wisefaq.com/2009/05/28/im-not-the-o...