Print Server - from 32bit to 64bit

[snootalope]

We've got a host of HP LaserJet printers here and only 3 are cable of being seamlessly used between 32 and 64bit. After exhausting google, technet, and just about every other forum a search can return, I'm still no closer to finding a solution.

We're in the middle of migrating from 32bit to 64bit. Everything we have is migrating piece by piece. I've hit a brick wall with the shared directory printers. All because one driver has a space in it's name in one spot and the other doesn't. For example:

32bit
HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL 6

64bit
HP LaserJet 4050 Series PCL6

I just can't come up with a reason why vendors would do this. It wouldn't be a big deal if I could just migrate our entire NOS to 64bit in a weekend, but of course that's just not plausible. It's going to take me months (it already has).

Anyway, what's a guy to do in this situation. Is it recommended to use the "Universal" driver during migration? Universal = issues just waiting to happen in my mind. Is it possible to rename these drivers so they take? I've looked at the inf's but this just seems like absolute non-sense to have to do this with 30 different printer models.

Anyone been here and done this already? Any advice is greatly appreciated..

 

[w33mhz]

I have done this, but I don't believe I have ever run across an issue because of spaces in the driver name. I have used the universal driver 32bit and 64bit didn't really run into to many issues. Only issues with them that I have run across is that a paticular printer or 2 didn't have support for 64bit and the univeral wouldn't work for them.
Can you explain in more detail what the issue that you are getting with spaces in the driver name?

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