Additional printer drivers greyed out

 · The printer is a HP P laser jet shared on a Windows R2 Server. Seems to be an issue chosing the Tray. When selecting output to tray 2 and applying the driver reset's itself to Automatically Select. Also all options on the Advanced TAB are greyed out and unavailable so they can't choose another driver.  · When you try to install additional drivers on a Windows Server Print Server, the option to install additional drivers will be greyed out if you have accessed this interface from the properties of a printer. This is normal behaviour. To fix this, install additional drivers from the Print Management interface.  · Server additional drivers for Shared Printer greyed out. In Print Management on Windows Server, Right-Click the Printer you want to change the driver on. Select "Manage Sharing". Under Sharing Tab, uncheck the box that says "Share this Printer" then click apply. Now you can go to the "Advanced".

When you try to install additional drivers on a Windows Server Print Server, the option to install additional drivers will be greyed out if you have accessed this interface from the properties of a printer. This is normal behaviour. To fix this, install additional drivers from the Print Management interface. The printer is a HP P laser jet shared on a Windows R2 Server. Seems to be an issue chosing the Tray. When selecting output to tray 2 and applying the driver reset's itself to Automatically Select. Also all options on the Advanced TAB are greyed out and unavailable so they can't choose another driver. Restoring Greyed Out Printer Properties. If this link does not work, the steps below are what you can do to resolve this: 1.) Go to Printers. 2.) Select Printer Properties. 3.) in the General Tab, find and click “Change Properties", in the bottom left corner. The Printer Properties box will close and reopen with administrator privileges. 4.).

To support client computers that use different processor architectures than the print server, you must install additional drivers. 8. You'll have to back out any change which killed the printer spooler. The workaround is to upgrade your server's print drivers to v4. 6. Clicking the Additional Drivers button lets you add drivers for legacy is grayed out, it means it is not applicable to this driver.