Creating a Windows printer driver

Prerequisites

•	The printer you want to create a driver for must be installed before you start the Windows Driver Tool.

Known limitations

•	Since data must continue directly to the Windows print spooler, queues cannot be used together with Windows printer drivers on the output connector.

To create a Windows driver

1	Start the Windows Driver Tool.

2	From the Printers drop-down list, select the printer you want to create a driver for. The fonts and paper options available for the selected printer are displayed.

3	Specify the settings (see below) and click Create.

4	Close the tool.

 

Settings
Printers	The printer you want to create a driver for.
Driver name	The name of the driver. For example: MyHPPCL5
File name (drs-file)	The path to the driver file. For example: C:\temp\MyHPPCL5.drs Note: You can not use the following characters in the file name: \/:*?”<>|
File name (opt-file)	The path to the driver options file. For example: C:\temp\MyHPPCL5opt.txt
Show character set	Select to include width-tables in the new driver file. The Windows Driver Tool creates the width-tables from the fonts installed on the printer. The StreamServer application uses these fixed width-tables at runtime. Select the character sets for which you want to display the fonts available on the printer, and click Refresh Fonts. The fonts are displayed in the Fonts list.
Create width tables during runtime	Instead of using a fixed width-table, the StreamServer application adapts the width for each character at runtime using the TrueType fonts (*.ttf and *.ttc) installed in a directory. In the Font directory box, enter or browse to the path of the directory that contains the fonts, and click Refresh Fonts. The fonts are displayed in the Fonts list. From the Charset list, select a character set.
Create font list during runtime	Select to make fonts and width-tables available via the Type Manager. This option adds the usetypemanager keyword to the driver file, which tells the driver to use the Type Manager. For detailed information about the Type Manager, see the Drivers documentation.
Fonts	Not applicable for the Create font list during runtime option. The selected fonts to be included in the driver file.
Paper sizes	The selected paper sizes to be included in the driver file and the driver options file.
Paper sources	The selected paper sources to be included in the driver file and the driver options file.