Today I learned something interesting while updating/migrating printers from our old server (Server 2003) to our new print server ( Server 2008 R2). When HP says Universal Print Driver they mean it!
In our district we have about 10-15 Dell Laser 1710/1720 printers. I was having a really tough time finding a driver that supported XP/Windows 7 for our new server. After a few days of trying every driver on the planet from dells website and contacting dell support I figured I would try HPs UPD. Who would of thought, it worked! I loaded upthe HP Universal Printing PCL 5 driver for all our 1700 series and and it worked flawless. They have been up for over 3 weeks in our school district and yet to have a hiccup.
Driver Download
The 1700s are the only printer I’ve tried the UPD on. If you know of others let me know below!
With this driver will it let you print edge to edge. We’ve got around 17 of these printers and was needing a pcl driver, but didn’t want to change them if it wasn’t going to fix my problem which is needing the ability to print edge to edge for a application we use.