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With Universal Print, the printer driver used on the end-user's Windows client is a OS built-in class driver that automatically adjusts and shows the printer capabilities depending on what the physical printer can support. Customers would not need to worry about managing printer drivers.
On the physical printer side of the deployment, Universal Print ready printers connects and supports Universal Print directly so no printer drivers are needed as well. For printers that need to use the Connector software package as the proxy between the printer and Universal Print, then there is still printer drivers involved and need to be managed.
Karl-WE, please provide a couple of examples of important feature set that you feel are missing in V4 compared to V3 drivers? This information will help us investigate and plan for future improvements.
- Jimmy_Wu we have recently seen this on implementation attempts of Kyocera universal drivers and they list a good list of drawbacks to V3 universal drivers like stapling and punching etc. Or issues with different things about graphics printed from the web or with PDF files. I would have to look up these but in practice the only V4 drivers we usually can deploy are the default drivers for PDF and XPS from Microsoft. Is this different with other vendors. I am expierenced with HP, Kyocera, Brother, Zebra, Konica Minolta and other brands but I see a common lack of V4 among these.
