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Until now, it was not
possible to share a Black Ice Printer
Driver across a network on a different
Windows operating system from where the
Black Ice Printer Driver is installed.
For example: if you installed a Black
Ice Color Printer Driver to a Windows XP
machine and shared the printer, you
could only use this printer on other XP
and Win2000 operating systems, you could
not use the shared printer on a Windows
2000 Server, or 2003 Server. |
The new Printer Driver
Sharing Utility is available with the
purchase of a Black Ice Printer Driver
for using the shared printer on
different Windows operating systems. You
can use a shared XP printer driver on a
Terminal Server operating system and
vice versa. The utility doesn’t support
the Windows 9(X) and Windows ME printer
drivers.
Using the Printer Driver
Sharing Utility
The steps below
demonstrate how to use the
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Printer Driver Sharing
Utility.
For example, when sharing
a Color printer driver installed on a
Windows 2003 Server on a Windows XP
operating system:
1. Share the Color
Printer Driver on the Windows 2003
machine. Call this machine ”server.”
2. Run the Printer Driver
Sharing Utility on the Windows XP
machine. Call this machine
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