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Printer Driver Generator 1.3.0.0

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21 February 2009 - 8:00pm
Submitted by: ukdtom

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This is a small tool that I wrote out of need. I do believe that this tool may be of use to others, but it's still in beta phase, and I need feedback from users, Please :-)

Problem:

I have a printer that did not come with an INF-based printer driver,but instead with a setup.exe-based driver / or integrated with Windows. I don't run iPrint, but only Point-And-Print, or NDPS. How do I distribute this driver?

Answer:

Install this program on your PC, and run PDrvGen.exe, select the printer, and select "Generate".An INF-based driver will now be generated!

What's new in version 1.3.0.0:

  • Gray Cash from the USA had a small, but nice request, that I preserved the version info in the driver, if it was present in the origen driver.
    That way, troubleshooting would be a lot easier to do.

PDrvGen will now extract and save the Driver Version info"

What's new in version 1.2.0.0:

  • Theo Pluym found an HP Driver that wasn't written that well, since it didn't liked a space between the parameters. Since I figured, that other drivers might suffer from the same problem, I corrected PDrvGen to generate inf-files without this.
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PDRVGen.zip335.3 KB

Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.



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KevinGG's picture

Excellent - Fixes issue

Submitted by KevinGG on 11 February 2008 - 7:46am.

Excellent - Fixes issue with loading HP5550 drivers into driver store under OES.

wvf's picture

dumb question

Submitted by wvf on 2 April 2008 - 11:21am.

How do I install this utility? When I unzip the program, I just see a file called pdrvgen.rar. Am I missing something?

ukdtom's picture

WinRar

Submitted by ukdtom on 8 April 2008 - 8:30pm.

You'll need WinRar.

This Util was originally compressed using the RAR compression, and when transferred to the new cool site, the RAR file was also zipped ;-)

Go Google for WinRar

jhickerson's picture

Great - Fixes Issue

Submitted by jhickerson on 15 May 2008 - 6:46am.

Great utility - fixed an unknown installation error 1450 that we were receiving while trying to install a 2015 or a 1320.

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helpful tool

Submitted by Pinkel on 28 July 2009 - 12:25pm.

although imanager should be able to upload printer drivers from files or local installed printers, in several cases PDRVgen was the only working solution to put printer drivers into iprint.
Thanks!

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Very good/helpful!

Submitted by e_rottier on 3 November 2010 - 1:18am.

Even in Windows 2008 R2 this tools does it's work very well.
Windows 2008 R2 is per definition 64-bit, and the printserver does not accept 32-bit drivers.

When I wanted to upload 32-bit driver from my XP workstation the server didn't accept them. (strange error messages)

I remembered using this tool a few years back for a different customer with iManager driver upload problems, so I used this tool again but in a Windows environment.

Well, all my troubles where like snow before the sun after using the "Printer Driver Generator"!

Thanks!

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Works great!!

Submitted by mcolwell on 17 November 2010 - 11:50am.

Every once in a while I get a driver that iManager just wont upload. This tool fixes that..

kbennemeer's picture

Great tool!

Submitted by kbennemeer on 21 January 2011 - 7:13am.

Thank you for a great tool. I just used it on MS Win XP SP3 to extract the 2008 driver files for an HP Colour Laserjet CM2320nf MFP, to go onto OES2SP2 iPrint. The HP drivers took forever to install in an installation shield (HP style), but everything worked first time and was very easy to complete.

cpeeblesSM's picture

OMG Thank You

Submitted by cpeeblesSM on 3 February 2011 - 11:19am.

This worked like a champ Thank You So much and keep up the great OES work because NOVELL never dies we just get a new .NLM ><

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Windows 7 64 bit

Submitted by heinkonijn on 21 March 2011 - 12:48pm.

Can you recompile this tool for Windows 7 64bit?
Thx, cool tool!

technomoney's picture

Thank You

Submitted by technomoney on 1 May 2012 - 9:28am.

Excellent tool! This has helped us so much! A Win7 64 bit version would be helpful though.

skishnani's picture

Great tool !! Thank you so much

Submitted by skishnani on 13 July 2011 - 4:13am.

Great tool !! Thank you so much

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Driver replacement

Submitted by PruittJ on 1 May 2012 - 1:09pm.

I also need a Windows 64 bit util. One of the issue I am running into is with iprint and ZCM10.3.3 printer policies. If I upload a driver that gets delivered to a workstation then later modify the driver then iprint does not replace the driver because it thinks it is the same driver (has the same version number). Will this possibly get around this issue or can the util allow for custom version numbering if needed?

Thank you.

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