Microsoft KB Archive/97496

= Use MSnull/IBMnull Driver with HP IIIsi Printer =

Article ID: 97496

Article Last Modified on 10/31/2006



This article was previously published under Q97496



SUMMARY
For reasons that are discussed below, the MSnull or IBMnull drivers are the best to use on a server to run Hewlett-Packard (HP) IIIsi printers on LAN Manager.

Any print job you send from an application already has the required print information embedded, so you don't need a specific driver such as the IIIsi on the server. As a rule, you want a driver on the server to be as generic as possible so that jobs--which applications have already formatted with necessary code--print without being processed by anything else. Set applicable null driver switches such as Default Spool Type to RAW, and set the Form Feed control to NONE.

This is the cleanest way to set up a print server for all workstation environments except OS/2 workstations.

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