How Microsoft's Windows 2003 SP1 Fallback Printer Driver Works
Sunday, 01 May 2005 by Michel Roth
Stefan Vermeulen does a nice write-up on the Windows 2003 SP1 Fallback Printer Driver.

Last month I explained the “universal” (or more appropriately “fallback”) printer driver support that was introduced with Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003. In that review I talked about the new fallback driver policy and its capabilities.

Today I would like to explain a bit more about the color support in the new SP1 feature. At BriForum 2005, Alex Balcanquall (a Microsoft Terminal Server product guy) gave a presentation on SP1. He talked about the "HP DeskJet 500C" and the "HP Color LaserJet 5/5M PS" as fallback drivers which of course are color drivers. But how does the system decide which driver to use when it's determines it needs to use a fallback driver?

Read more over @ Brian Madden.com.

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