Command line installation of the Fiery Essential Driver

The Windows driver downloaded from WebTools now supports silent installation of the driver on any client. This feature supports enterprise installation of the Windows driver through the various third-party deployment tools.

To view errors, select Event Viewer > Windows Logs > Application. PRNTDRV.EXE will be listed as the source of error.

Note: Error messages will also be displayed in the command window.

The following functionalities are supported:

Launching the Fiery Essential Driver Installer Wizard
Note: To start the Fiery Essential Driver Installer Wizard, launch PRNTDRV.EXE either from the command line or Windows Explorer.
Printer driver and printer silent installation
Listing of models that the driver package supports
Listing of the locales that the driver package supports
Driver package extraction
Note: The final four functionalities listed are accessed by applying specific parameters to PRNTDRV.EXE from the command line.

Note: For all functionalities, open the command window CMD.EXE in administrator mode. Once the command window opens, change the folder to the directory where PRNTDRV.EXE exists.

Launching the Fiery Essential Driver Installer Wizard

Fiery Essential Driver Installer Wizard Setup.exe will be launched if it is in the driver package and no parameters are passed to PRNTDRV.EXE, which can be accomplished by:

Double-clicking PRNTDRV.EXE from the explorer
Typing PRNTDRV.EXE in the command window

Note: Double-clicking PRNTDRV.EXE will not display the printer driver package extraction window. Instead, the printer driver installation will continue and the Fiery Essential Driver Installer Wizard will be displayed.

Print driver and printer silent installation

Command: PRNTDRV.EXE /install [-i ipaddress/hostname] [-l locale] [-m model] [-p printername] [-q queue]

-i specifies the IP address/hostname of the print server that the printer points to. It is up to the user to make sure that the specified IP address/hostname belong to a valid print server. No checks will be made for their validity. This parameter is required, and an error will be reported if it is missing.
-l specifies the two-letter locale of the print driver that should be installed. If the print driver package supports more than one language, then this parameter is required, and an error will be reported if it is missing. If the print driver package is locale-specific, then this parameter will not be required because there will be only one driver available to install within the driver package.
-m specifies the model of the driver that should be installed. The driver package usually supports at least two models of the print driver. This parameter is required, and an error will be reported if it is missing.
Note: The model name should be in double quotes.
-p specifies the name of the printer. This parameter is optional, and if not specified, the printer name will be set to the same name as the printer model.
Note: The printer name should be specified in double quotes.
-q specifies the print queue that the printer should print to. It may be one of the Hold, Print or Direct queues or the name of a virtual printer. It is up to the user to make sure that the specified print queue or virtual printer exists on the server. This parameter is optional, and if not specified, the print queue will default to "print."

Listing of models the driver package supports

Command: PRNTDRV.EXE /listmodels [locale]

In order to list the models supported by the specified locale, the two-letter locale must be specified next to the /listmodels switch. If the specified locale is invalid or not supported by the driver package, an error will be reported. This parameter is required if the driver package supports more than one locale. If the driver package is locale-specific (supports only one locale), then this parameter will be ignored.

Listing of locales the driver package supports

Command: PRNTDRV.EXE /listlocales

Driver package extraction

Command: PRNTDRV.EXE /extract [path]

The [path] parameter is optional, and if not provided, the driver package will be extracted to the Prntdrvr folder, which will reside in another folder with PRNTDRV.EXE. If the path is specified, then it needs to be absolute.

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