To make a long story short, we recommend using Type 3 drivers downloaded from a printer manufacturer’s website whenever possible. At the bottom of this article we explain what limitations PaperCut has with Type 4 drivers. A Type 4 driver is usually bundled with the operating system or is downloaded from Windows update, whereas Type 3 drivers are often downloaded from the printer manufacturer’s website.īelow we’ve documented some of the shortcomings we’ve found with Type 4 drivers, some of which are completely unrelated to PaperCut. This PCL6 driver supports the V4 architecture, which Microsoft introduced as its next-generation driver architecture, and offers universal printing. This will say whether a particular driver is a Type 3 or Type 4 driver. (File Size : 40,529 KB) Ver.4.10.0.0 Released Date: New For a list of supported model and more, please see: here. Each one of these situations is discussed below.Ī simple way to check the driver type is to open the Print Management console, open Drivers, then look at the column named “Driver Type”. saying Kyocera, Ricoh, Zebra, and other printers run into the issue.
Unfortunately, there are a few issues customers have reported when using these drivers, and a couple problems when using these drivers in conjunction with specific PaperCut features. Description: KX V4 driver (PCL 6/XL and XPS) (certified and signed by Microsoft). Type 4 drivers were introduced by Microsoft with Windows Server 2012 and were intended to replace the default drivers bundled with the Windows operating system.
