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Is there a way to copy in-box printer drivers from Windows 7x64 to W2K3 Server x86?

I'm currently setting up shared print queues for Windows 7 Pro x64 clients on a Windows 2003 Standard Server x86. I've been able to successfully set these up for all other print devices, but am stuck on our Konica Minolta Di3010.

Per this KM article, I was able to setup a local queue on a Windows 7 x64 client with the in-box PCL5e driver. But it looks like the only driver available for Windows 2003 is PCL6. (I am setting up new queues just for our new Windows 7 x64 clients & not touching the existing queues for our Windows XP x86 clients.)

On the Windows 7 x64 client, I went to Print Management & thought I'd successfully added the PCL5e x64 driver to the W2K3 x86 server...but when I log into the server, I don't see PCL5e as a choice. I even tried just using the Konica Minolta Universal driver...but that didn't work either.

Is there a way around this other then setting up local queues for each client using the Di3010?

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Davis McCarn

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blugirl

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@DavisMcCarn: Thanks for confirming that. As another option, what if I setup one of the clients with a local x64 queue & share that out to make management less painful? I guess the 2 main considerations would be Windows' 10 connection limit to a client OS & the burden of spooling the print jobs on the workstation the queue is being shared from, yes?

Davis McCarn

Printing directly to a specified TCP/IP printer port is always the best option. It reduces network traffic, eliminates driver version problems, and works forever.