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What difference does it make if the driver is update from the server or the update website of the mfg? You're making this too hard. Set the server and the clients up to print directly to TCP/IP for the printer, setup the mfg's software to auotupdate, and then all will be in sync. <br />
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What difference does it make if the driver is update from the server or the update website of the mfg? You're making this too hard. Set the server and the clients up to print directly to TCP/IP for the printer, setup the mfg's software to auotupdate, and then all will be in sync.



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If you are using Server 2003 R2, you can use Print Management Console to manage print drivers and ports.<br />
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<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=83066ddc-bc96-4418-a629-48c8abd2c7a0&displaylang=en" rel="ugc">http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=83066ddc-bc96-4418-a629-48c8abd2c7a0&displaylang=en</a>
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If you are using Server 2003 R2, you can use Print Management Console to manage print drivers and ports.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=83066ddc-bc96-4418-a629-48c8abd2c7a0&displaylang=en [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=83066ddc-bc96-4418-a629-48c8abd2c7a0&displaylang=en]

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You could use a tool like drivermax for the updating. <a href="http://www.drivermax.com" rel="ugc">www.drivermax.com</a>
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You could use a tool like drivermax for the updating. www.drivermax.com [http://www.drivermax.com]

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I'm looking for the best of both worlds, I guess. &nbsp;I would like to have printers that are not necessarily bound to a server, in other words, a local printer, but to have the ability to update drivers and settings for them from a server.<br />
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I don't want to lose the ability to print if the server goes down, which is why I'm leaning toward local TCP/IP ports and local style network printers, but is there a way to be able to update drivers on the remote client machines from a server without having to go to each machine and update drivers and settings?
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I'm looking for the best of both worlds, I guess.  I would like to have printers that are not necessarily bound to a server, in other words, a local printer, but to have the ability to update drivers and settings for them from a server.

I don't want to lose the ability to print if the server goes down, which is why I'm leaning toward local TCP/IP ports and local style network printers, but is there a way to be able to update drivers on the remote client machines from a server without having to go to each machine and update drivers and settings?

Local Printer with drivers installed on a server?

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