Driver for network sharing for designjet T630

[ochmenno]

Hello,

I've delivered a T630 to a customer with a MS 2019 server where he installed the pcl3 v4 driver on the server.

At the Win 10 client, when you add the shared driver you only get the Microsoft enhanced point and print driver.

The problem is that you can't create user specified paper formats with this driver and you can't scale documents wtih it.

The customers IT Admin told me that in the description  of this driver (he got from the over 1 GB driver package from HP's website for this model) there is mentioned that the pcl V4 driver isn't thought for sharing in a server-client architecture.

Please could anyone tell me where exactly i can find this in the driver Package.

And second, the IT admin want's a driver that can be shared so that the client  has the full functionality.

Another thing is that the user at the win 10 client wants to upscale diagrams he draws in MS Excel (some boxes and arrows) .

This doen't work well. You have to convert it into PDF and so on to get the output you want. What can one say about this.

Upscaling  Excel sheets... mmmhhh...?

Thank you.

[HarryCR]

Hi @ochmenno 

What you need is only the driver, no the package where the *.inf file is in. Once installed this driver can be shared with full rights to any user however MS. Excel doesn't properly work with this type of large format printers and the workaround if to convert the files to pdf. This is a technical printer designed to print lines and drawings from CAD software or PDF files no from MS programs which don't have the correct paper settings to print in big sizes.

[ochmenno]

Thank you so much,

the driver you suggest is the one I've used. I have installed this driver on our server here and it's the same issue as the customer has. You only get the Microsoft enhanced point and print driver on the client. Look here it seems to be a general issue with V4 drivers (independend from the printer brand):

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/450d90b2-e084-4149-a9f8-1bac9e5cbf86/enhanced-poin... 

The solution they give there is to use the v3 driver which is contained in the driver package from HP too, but I can't install this

V3 driver, because there is no inf file to install.

Is there any HP designjet which is recommended for excel upscaling?

[HarryCR]

Hello @ochmenno, good morning.

Unfortunately the v3 driver is already discontinued by HP and even if available the T600 series of printer came after and correct there is no *.inf file for it.

There is no HP Designjet that will work fine with MS Word, Excel, Power Point, because they are not designed to print in large paper sizes because usually the jobs are designed in letter sizes, so before printing the job has to be created in a large size like Arch D 24 x 36 the it can be printed that size.

[Repairatrooper]

Keep in mind, for V4 drivers you must install the driver on the workstations and the server. V4 drivers do not download from the server and that is the reason you are getting the Microsoft driver installing.

[ochmenno]

Thank you,

I've figured the issue with the V4 driver out. But what do you do if the IT Admin wants a driver for server sharing only

and is not willing to install the driver locally too? Does this model print with and HPGL 2 driver. As I remember, ist does not.