Building a printer driver package?

[FuNKeR]

Hi there.

I wondered, if someone had a solution for my problem.

I want to install some printer drivers (HP DJ640C, DJ840C, DJ930C, DJ940C, BIJ1100d, BIJ1200d) on a ready-to-go system.

At the moment we always need to install every driver by hand with the new printer wizard and this is not really time saving.

Is there a possibility to build a package or something, that installs the drivers alltogether? That would be great.

btw: I do not need it in an unattended installation, so there is no need to hide everything. A statusbar would be better then, so you can see, when it is finished.

btw2: I'm not a fan of AutoIt for these kind of installations then, so please don't tell me, I have to use it. There must be another way

Thanks for your help.

cu

FuNKeR

[Lucius Snow]

I think it's theoretically possible. However, there're so *many* models around that it'd be a hudge work. Plus, they usually come with big sized utilities softwares that'd require a separate install everytime. For some All-in-One HP printers, the "drivers" take up to 200 MB or such :/

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

Main question: would you need/want the utilities as well? If not, I would like to make it. But then I trust you, the users, to provide me with links to these drivers. I won't search for them myself, because there are SO many of them, as mentioned earlier.

[Acheron]

Bashrat, do you use compression with your pack?

I would love to have a separate printer driver package, however Windows doesn't install printers by default during Unattended Installation so it doesn't have to integrate on cd.

I toke a look at the Samsung ML-1210 drivers, they are compressed about 700 KB

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

Bashrat, do you use compression with your pack?

I would love to have a separate printer driver package, however Windows doesn't install printers by default during Unattended Installation so it doesn't have to integrate on cd.

I toke a look at the Samsung ML-1210 drivers, they are compressed about 700 KB

Yes, I do.

7zip compression for Pyron's method and CAB compression for the regular method. However this CAB compression is not yet available! However, it should be released tomorrow.

[Ghost82]

If you want to automate the process of adding printers try this:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?

It will give you a list of switches that may be helpfull (found this on google search for "unattended printer installation")

Hope it helps!

edit: just found another great rundll32 link: http://www.dx21.com/SCRIPTING/RUNDLL32/REF...E.ASP?ISF=0&P=A

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

If you want to automate the process of adding printers try this:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?

It will give you a list of switches that may be helpfull (found this on google search for "unattended printer installation")

Hope it helps!

hmm... That's not quite handy: you'd have to specify which inf file, so it won't be system independant anymore

[IcemanND]

where was that 2 years ago when I had to set default printers duing syspreped ghost deployments. I ended up writeing an app to do it all i needed was :

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n "printer1"

Thanks Ghost82

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

where was that 2 years ago when I had to set default printers duing syspreped ghost deployments.  I ended up writeing an app to do it all i needed was :

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /y /n "printer1"

Thanks Ghost82

That command just sets a printer as default printer and renames it to printer1...

What about that app?

[IcemanND]

Which is exactly what I needed to do set the default printer. The printers were already installed in the image just had to set the appropriate default. All I needed was a line in runonce, not a app and a line in runonce.

[Ghost82]

If you want to automate the process of adding printers try this:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?

It will give you a list of switches that may be helpfull (found this on google search for "unattended printer installation")

Hope it helps!

hmm... That's not quite handy: you'd have to specify which inf file, so it won't be system independant anymore

that's true, but u can possibly use this in a domain to write a script that checks the department of the user (or any other info in the domainprofile of the user) and that way identify wich printers the user(s) need.

Anyway: a Printerpack would really be a good idea as alot of modern printers are USB-Printers so windows auto-detects them and always tries to install the drivers! (there are even printers on a parallel cable that get detected by windows)

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

If you want to automate the process of adding printers try this:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?

It will give you a list of switches that may be helpfull (found this on google search for "unattended printer installation")

Hope it helps!

hmm... That's not quite handy: you'd have to specify which inf file, so it won't be system independant anymore

that's true, but u can possibly use this in a domain to write a script that checks the department of the user (or any other info in the domainprofile of the user) and that way identify wich printers the user(s) need.

Anyway: a Printerpack would really be a good idea as alot of modern printers are USB-Printers so windows auto-detects them and always tries to install the drivers! (there are even printers on a parallel cable that get detected by windows)

OK.

Then the DriverPack Printer will only support plug 'n play printers, untill a decent solution has been found.

[FuNKeR]

Well, all I personally need, are the drivers mentioned in my first post. I already got them and I only install them via the new printer wizard. I do not need the utilities.

The point is, that I need to use them with Win2000, not XP. Maybe this makes it a lot more difficult?

cu

FuNKeR

[Bâshrat the Sneaky]

In your case it might be easier to use the command suggested above, because it's only a limited list of printers.

[FuNKeR]

I think I did not get the point What method do you mean though?

EDIT:

Ah, think I got it now. You meant the

"rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /?" command. Tried it and found this "predefined" command:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /if /b "Testdrucker" /f %windir%\inf\ntprint.inf /r "lpt1:" /m "AGFA-AccuSet v52.3"

This could be useful for me. I will try it with RAR-archives that execute the commands after extraction

I'll report, if it works.

cu

FuNKeR