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This is where we separate the men from the boys when it comes to “Universal Print Drivers”. So you say that is great we can load one driver on our end users PCs and they can print to various printers correctly (Oh no, you added the word “correctly”, Huston we have a problem). The Sales guy will tell you that “YES we have a UNIVERSAL PRINT DRIVER”, and “A UNIVERSAL PRINT DRIVER CAN PRINT TO DIFFERENT MANUFACTURER’S PRINTERS”. What the Vendors want you to think of when you hear the term “Universal Print Driver” is a single print driver that will print to any printer, right? Not so fast. If we are going to have an intelligent conversation, it is incumbent upon us to first define our terms. Why, you ask is this necessary? Because different vendors use the same term BUT mean different things by it. You may only be able to determine the capabilities of your vendors “Universal Print Driver” by asking a series of pointed questions.

But once we have a PCL Universal Driver or a PS Universal driver what do you actually have? That depends on who you ask. I will spare you all the gory details but let’s just say that these are two different printer languages. What is a “Universal Print Driver”? For starters there are two flavors Postscript or PCL. Since I don’t know any company that has all the same model(s) of Printers or MFDs, lets look at the Universal Print Driver option. for these to work correctly we need to have EITHER all the same type of Printers OR a Universal Print Driver. Follow me printing, follow you printing, secure printing, or rules based routing….