Have you ever tried to add an additional print driver on a Windows 2008 x64 server? If so, you know how it pretty much can’t be done. Here is my recommended way to add x86 drivers for say Windows XP, etc..
1. On any one of the clients machine running 32-bit OS.
2. Access the x64 print server \\PrintserverName\Printers.
3. Open the printer required to add the 32-bit driver.
4. Go to properties.
5. Sharing Tab.
6. Additional drivers.
7. Check the box for x86 for Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 2003.
8. Click OK.
Then, locate the INF file of the printer driver for XP 32-bit downloaded driver.
After doing this, you should now be able to install a shared printer from a x64 OS to x86 OS.
Thanks! This helped a lot.
Thankyou this info was very helpful.
would this be same for Win 7 OS?
Thank you kindly
Thank you! I don’t know why this has caused so much trouble, and this answer was so hard to find. It worked great!
Yes, same for Windows 7
this helps if the print driver isn’t the new HP universal driver which does not have a single inf file. Any idea how you would install the HP universal driver?
the LJ2430n only has the universal driver available for download. HP site seemed to have nothing on the subject.