yellow1912 Posted September 24, 2007 Report Share Posted September 24, 2007 We have a small lab at school which has around 50 computers running on Windows XP Pro. The printer (HP 4050) is connected through the Ethernet cable. We plan to put in some more printers, and also upgrade the driver, but it's kinda troublesome that we have to go to each computer and perform a driver update (and driver installation for the new printers). I'm wondering if there is any way we can perform this type of driver/software updates on all computers on the Local Network at once?Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted September 25, 2007 Report Share Posted September 25, 2007 You should not need to install a driver for a networked printer. It will install automatically when you connect. Is this printer on a print server device, or is it connected to a computer and shared? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sec Posted November 3, 2007 Report Share Posted November 3, 2007 Are you part of a workgroup or a domain? If you add the printers to the server and install the drivers on the server you can simple set it to share the printer across the network so you dont have to go around installing drivers on every single node. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted November 4, 2007 Report Share Posted November 4, 2007 If I remember correctly, you had to install the printer drivers on all computers on older (Win9x) systems. But not on NT-based systems (2K, XP, Vista). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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