A month ago Nitin Kohli commented:
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.
No, it does not. Let’s look at that Novell article I linked to in my blog post, and the same one you quoted back to me:
Does iPrint work with HP’s Universal Printer Drivers?
… While the functionality with the UPD and the iPrint Client 5.12 is better, there continues to be some limitations. The ability to configure a UPD with iPrint’s Printer Driver Profile (PDP) feature will require drastic changes in the PDP creation process. These changes have not been implemented yet.
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iPrint cannot present the correct printer driver options to the administrator to configure the PDP when the driver is universal. One consideration Novell is investigating is to change the PDP creation process to prompt the administrator to provide the IP address of the printer so the universal driver can present the appropriate configurable driver features specific to that printer model to the administrator. …
“These changes have not been implemented yet”.
No, that’s because they are in UPD 5.0, which is due for release late June..
The situation we have at the moment, is that we can’t purchase and install new HP printers because of the UPD 5.0 requirement.
Even with iPrint 5.12 and UPD 5.0, we will still need to change our iPrint settings so we can have the privilege of using new HP printers.
How long have we been waiting?
Since February (UPD 4.7.2 release didn’t work for us), IF we’re being kind to HP.
JULY 2008 if we’re being bloody honest about it.
Seems I’m not the only person upset with HP.
My previous HP UPD posts have been:
HP lets buggy print driver lurk on web. (March 2009)
“Unable to store job at printer” (January 2009)
Still a pack of cheap bastards (December 2008)
HP still dragging their feet on the Universal Print Driver (November 2008)
HP Universal Print Driver – shame it doesn’t work with Novell Netware (October 2008)
I have recently downloaded the HP UPD 4.7.2 (not from HP's web site). I was able to used the HP DriverPre-Configuration utility to disable bi-direction communication and set some defaults. This basically makes the driver a discrete printer driver. I was then able to load the printer driver to iPrint on an OES2 Linux server (I can not load to an iPrint Neware server yet) and finally use the Printer Driver Profile in iManager/iPrint to create a unique configuration for different printer models. I know this adds some extra effort that is not idea behind a UPD, but I now only have one HP printer driver for my 20 plus printer models in my company. To make things slightly easier for me, we have standardized on 'classes' of printers, workgroup and departmental in both mono and color. I will only need to create four printer driver profiles for all the different printer models. This means I go from 20 plus printer drivers and 20 plus printer drivers profiles to one printer driver and four printer driver profiles for my HP printers.
*Note, need to upgrade the iPrint client to ver. 5.12
Now I need to get the Xerox Global Printer driver to work and then will only have two printer drivers in the firm!
Josh,
Yes that's the theory. We've been working with HP and Novell since at least August.
The solution for us is UPD 5.0.x and iPrint 5.12. We've tested it with the UPD 5.0 Beta driver, and it works very well.
We're in a holding pattern until then
Lanier/Ricoh have also gone UPD as well.
Use of HP UPD is in my experience counter productive.
If you need to print to HP use the CLJ 9500MFP PS driver (or PCL6 or PCL5c if you must).
This driver works on HP LaserJets.
This driver is cluster compliant comes in 64bit and 32bit flavours and works with Novell/Iprint Citrix – the lot.
Some care needs to be taken with configuration to ensure best performance.
- Within advanced disabled “advanced features”
- Ensure font substitution is set to “down load soft font”
- Set print processor to “winprint” & “raw”
- Stop PDF pass thru
- Stop PDF error handler
Although this driver only supports 4 trays max it will work with any number of trays, just use paper type when sending job.
If this does not work for you, or you want to print faster use Adobe's Universal Print Driver – it's easy to modify the PPD to add duplex and colour – it took me about 30 mins to sort and test.