How To Set Up Easy Print Driver Installations

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Well, with 100 PCs, I'd be inclined to use a print server and add the
printers as network printers on the PC (see
http://members.shaw.ca/bsanders/NetPrinterAllUsers.htm for one way to do
this).

If you have a File or other server, you should be able to use that as a
print server without much difficulty. The load from serving printers for
workstations is usually low to neglible.

You might find the printmig tool useful - see
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads [...] ayLang=en.

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Bruce Sanderson MVP

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"Dave Walsh" <dwalsh@btc.pe.ca> wrote in message
news:u%Mfd.155091$Np3.6727118@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
> Hi,
>
> I have a bunch of Windows XP workstations *NOT* connected to any sort of
> domain. We have three identical Lexmark printers and are setting each
> printer up on each workstation. We are configuring 100 PCs and it's quite
> a bit of work to set up all three on every workstation (essentially, 300
> tasks at 3 per workstation). Since all printers are identical, is there
> any way that I can store the configurations centrally and then copy and
> paste them to all 100 PCs? Failing that, is there some way to maybe do
> one on a PC and then copy it out to the other two on the same PC (of
> course, I'd have to change the IP address on the printer port, but that
> wouldn't be as big a deal).
>
> I'm just looking for some way to reduce the repetitive effort here. Any
> suggestions on how I can do this?
>
>
> TIA,
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>