Microsoft® Windows Embedded Standard (WES) 2009 for HP Thin Clients Quick Reference Guide

7Peripherals

Depending on the ports available, the thin client can provide services for USB, serial, parallel, and PCI

devices, as long as the appropriate software is installed. Factory-installed software is described in the

following section. As they become available, you can install add-ons for other services using the Altiris

Deployment or HP Device Manager solution software. For more information, see

Altiris Client Agent

on page 24 and HP Management Agent on page 25.

For more information about available peripherals, go to

http://www.hp.com/support and search for

the specific thin client model. Select the model, select Specifications, and then click the QuickSpec

link.

Printers

A generic universal print driver is installed on the thin client to support text-only printing to a locally

connected printer. To print full text and graphics to a locally connected printer, install the driver

provided by the manufacturer and follow the manufacturer’s instructions. Be sure to disable the write

filter cache or run the -commit command to save the installation. You can print to network printers from

ICA and RDP applications through print drivers on the servers.

For additional information, please review the Printing and Imaging Support on HP Compaq Thin Clients

white paper on the HP support site at

http://www.hp.com/support. Select the country from the map,

then click Support & Drivers. Select See support and troubleshooting information, type the

thin client model in the field, and click Enter.

CAUTION: If the available free space on the flash memory is reduced to less than 10MB and/or the

available system memory is reduced to less than 15MB, the thin client becomes unstable.

NOTE: Downloading and using printers requires sufficient flash space. In some cases, you may have

to remove software components to free up space for printers.

Printing to a locally-connected printer from an ICA or RDP session using the print drivers of the server

produces full text and graphics functionality from the printer. To do this, you must install the print driver

on the server and the text-only driver on the thin client (see the following section).