Designating access to printer drivers
FH Web Edition can obtain printer drivers from the following sources:
- Universal Printer Driver. FH Web Edition includes a universal printer driver that can print to any client printer. Select Universal Printer Driver to allow the use of the Universal Printer Driver for configuring client printers.
- Windows Printer Drivers. Select Windows Printer Drivers to allow printers to be configured using already-installed native drivers. To allow FH Web Edition to automatically install native printer drivers that ship with Microsoft Windows, select Automatically install drivers.
When no options are selected, no printers are configured, and client printing is disabled. When only Universal Printer Driver is selected, the universal printer driver is used as a printer driver instead of native drivers. This is the default setting. When only Windows Printer Drivers is selected, only native printer drivers installed on the FH Web Edition server are used. If a printer’s native driver is not installed, that printer is not configured.
When Windows Printer Drivers and Automatically install drivers are selected, only native printer drivers installed on the host, or those that are included with Windows, are used. If a printer's native driver is not installed and not included with Windows, that printer is not configured.
When both Universal Printer Driver and Windows Printer Drivers are selected, and a printer's native driver is installed on the host, the printer’s native driver is used to configure the printer. If it is not installed on the host, the printer is configured to use the universal printer driver.
The universal printer driver is supported on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Users running the Windows CE client must use the universal printer driver. When printing with the universal printer driver, the user (or group) needs to have full access to the temp directory.
A printer named Preview PDF is configured in each session when Universal Printer Driver is selected. Documents printed to this printer are automatically converted to a .pdf file and displayed on the client computer. Users can save, print, or email the document at their discretion. A PDF reader, such as Adobe Reader, is required on the client computer to use the universal printer driver's PDF conversion feature.
Note: The universal printer driver uses a standard printing properties dialog box, and may not offer some of the more advanced printing options other drivers do.
Administrators set access to printer driver sources through the Host Options dialog box.