HP Laser Jet component or 1 printer driver = many printers

[Guest]

?Hello,

I was wondering what is the HP Laser Jet component in TD. When I use this
component (and no other printer compoenent) I don't see any printer install
in XPE. The reason why I would like to use this one, it's that I though that
it could be a general driver for all HP laser jet. Am I wrong with that?
Is there anyone know a driver that I could use with many printers? The user
will not be able to install printer and choose printer in XPE, so if I could
find a brand and a driver that let the user choosing from many printers
instead of only one, it would be great!

Thanks

Louis

 

[Heidi Linda eMVP]

?Hello,

I was wondering what is the HP Laser Jet component in TD. When I use this
component (and no other printer compoenent) I don't see any printer install
in XPE. The reason why I would like to use this one, it's that I though that
it could be a general driver for all HP laser jet. Am I wrong with that?
Is there anyone know a driver that I could use with many printers? The user
will not be able to install printer and choose printer in XPE, so if I could
find a brand and a driver that let the user choosing from many printers
instead of only one, it would be great!

Ranges of drivers can be a bit of a pain in XPe. I've generally found
that things only install if they're plugged in during FBA.

 

[KM]

I found a quick workaround that some of use here may not like.
If you just include all the HP Laser components, all HP Laser printers supported by XP Pro should work.

The question is how to include them all. Either manually (98 components only) or using the new XPProEmulation component
implementation (latest XPeTools package which is waiting to be updated on www.xpefiles.com when old one removed) that allows you to
set a group filter (Hardware : Devices : Printers) and also set the component filter (HP Laser).

Anyway, I did the latter and here is the project with all HP Laser printer components included - www.xpefiles.com, Development
Utilities, Main folder, HPLaser_Printers.ZIP.

The same, btw, can be done with any Group (Category) and component filters.

Hope this helps.

 

[David Ditch]

I included the HP laserjet III.
It uses HP PCL standard.
That is supported by HP printers and some others.
Right now the Brother 1440 is the most economical printer that supports it.
So far if a printer has been HP PCL 4 or greater it has been plug and play.
I just install a Laserjet III and plug in the printer. I'm doing simple
printer prints not worrying about other printer diagnostics or features.

David