- #REMOVE GENERIC IEEE 1284.4 PRINTING SUPPORT INSTALL#
- #REMOVE GENERIC IEEE 1284.4 PRINTING SUPPORT UPDATE#
- #REMOVE GENERIC IEEE 1284.4 PRINTING SUPPORT DRIVER#
#REMOVE GENERIC IEEE 1284.4 PRINTING SUPPORT INSTALL#
I have tried deleting ALL printers that use the UPD from a local system and then using the install.exe form the UPD package to install the local printer as a USB printer (disconnecting it prior to the install and then reconnecting it when prompted by the install process), yet the same Generic port is recreated. This whitepaper (which is for Windows XP unfortunately) would seem to support the theory that the port has changed and that the Generic port is much slower (which is what we're seeing now with local printers). The USB port for the local printer now shows as "DOT4 Generic IEEE 1284.4 printing support", whereas before I'm fairly certain it showed as "DOT4 HP Laserjet Modelnumber".
#REMOVE GENERIC IEEE 1284.4 PRINTING SUPPORT UPDATE#
It seems that when the PCs with local printers attached downloaded the new UPD PCL 5 form the network (to update their network printer drivers), it reconfigured the USB port for each locally connected printer. So after messing around with this more yesterday I think I have it narrowed down to a port issue. I turned the local printer back on and it was recognized and loaded the new HP UPD PCL5 driver, but the problem persists. I rebooted, then used the HP UPD PCL 5 install.exe to run the install on the local machine, choosing to do a USB install. I tried deleting all the network printers from one of the client PCs, then removing the local printer as well. Basically local print jobs just went from 5 seconds to over 30 seconds or more for each job to begin printing. The printer then takes an additional few seconds to process the job. If the local printer is set as default, trying to bring up a properties dialog box takes several seconds (before it was instant), and clicking PRINT in any application results in a noticable delay before the print dialog appears, followed by another noticeable delay (as in 10-20 seconds) before the job is processed and the application control returned ot the user.
#REMOVE GENERIC IEEE 1284.4 PRINTING SUPPORT DRIVER#
I believe this is because the local printers also use the HP UPD PCL5 driver, and something "broke" when I updated the driver on the server. However, as soon as I had updated the server drivers, anyone with a locally attached HP printer began to experience very slow response times when attempting to print jobs to their local printer or even bring up the properties of the local printer. All 5 network HP printers now show the new UPD PCL 5 driver, and all 5 seem to be working properly from all attached network clients. I recently upgraded the HP Universal Print Driver PCL 5 on my Windows 2008 R2 file and print server.
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