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Installing Additional Drivers on Print Server

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We have a Server 2008 R2 print server that handles all printing for our mixed windows domain. I am trying to install 64 bit drivers so that our newer 64 bit clients can simply double click on the printer to add it to their list of printers.

According to what I'm reading online, I'm supposed to go into the printer's properties. Click Sharing, then click additional drivers. Makes sense. I select the x64 for the processor type (x86 is checked by default and will not uncheck).

At this point it wants me to locate the drivers. I point it to the HP drivers that I have downloaded for 64 bit processors and hit ok but it tells me "The specified location does not contain the driver HP laserjet 4250 PCL 5 for the requested processor architecture." Which it does, although it is PCL 5e rather than PCL 5.

I also have read that the drivers need to have the same name. I assume this means within the INI file. I've tried to change all the locations to read PCL 5 instead of PCL 5e but it gives another error instead. "Windows cannot locate a suitable printer driver. Contact your administrator."

Help!
 
I am not sure of the error you are recieving, but for my Server 2008 R2 print server when I add additional drivers I go to the print server in server manager, right click on drivers, and then select add driver. I believe doing it this way it adds the drivers to the pool of drivers the server has access to which in turn should make them available to that HP LJ 4250. Let me know if this helps and I hope my steps make sense. If not I can take screenshots. Also the universal print drivers HP provides helped me get around a lot of the driver issues, directly related to Windows 7, that I experience on my print server.
 
I know that the 4250 works fine on a server 2008 x86 server with Win7 x64 clients.
I had major problems with a 4200 however.

just make sure you get the same drivers 32/64 off the hp website. like pcl6, pcl5, or PS.. it should work if you locate the files.

Is this server 2008 r2 running 32 or 64 bit? I had a horrible time making a 2008 x64 server a print server.
 
drkns said:
I am not sure of the error you are recieving, but for my Server 2008 R2 print server when I add additional drivers I go to the print server in server manager, right click on drivers, and then select add driver. I believe doing it this way it adds the drivers to the pool of drivers the server has access to which in turn should make them available to that HP LJ 4250. Let me know if this helps and I hope my steps make sense. If not I can take screenshots. Also the universal print drivers HP provides helped me get around a lot of the driver issues, directly related to Windows 7, that I experience on my print server.
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Do exactly as this guy says. I'd install identical print drivers though, the x64 and x86 at the same time.
 
Ya you guys are right, I was trying to add the x64 driver after the x86 one was already on and it appears as though it won't work that way because when I install both x64 and x86 right off the bad it works fine. Also, the driver has to be changed on the printer configuration properties to the PCL 5e rather than PCL 5 to coincide with the x64 drivers.
 
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