HP Topshot LaserJet Pro M275 - Software Technical Reference

Point-and Print installation
Use the following information to install a print driver by using the Microsoft Point-and-Print feature
when you do not connect directly to the product on the network.
Point-and-Print is a Microsoft term that describes a two-step print driver installation process. The first
step is to install a shared print driver on a network print server. The second step is to "point" to the
print server from a network client so that the client can use the print driver.
This section outlines the procedures for installing print drivers by using Point-and-Print. If these
procedures are not successful, contact Microsoft. HP provides print drivers that are compatible with
the Point-and-Print feature, but this is a function of the Windows operating systems, not of HP print
drivers.
NOTE: Administrator privileges are necessary to install the print driver.
In a homogenous operating system environment (one in which all of the clients and servers are
running in the same operating system), the same print driver version that is vended from the server to
the clients in a Point-and-Print environment also runs and controls the print queue configuration on
the server. However, in a mixed operating system environment (one in which servers and clients
might run on different operating systems), conflicts can occur when client computers run a version of
the print driver that is different from the one on the print server.
In an effort to increase operating system stability, Microsoft determined that, starting with Windows
2000 and continuing with all future operating systems, print drivers would run as user-mode
processes. User-mode drivers run in a protected part of the operating system, as do all of the normal
end-user processes and software programs. A user-mode print driver that functions incorrectly can
terminate (or “crash”) only the process in which it is running—not the whole operating system.
Because access to critical system resources is restricted, overall operating system stability is
increased.
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