Xerox 5500 User Guide

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Phaser® 5500 Laser Printer
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Printer Drivers
This topic includes:
Printer drivers enable your computer and printer to communicate and provide access to your 
printer features. Xerox makes driver installation easy with its Walk-Up Technology. For more 
information about printer drivers, see the video at 
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Available Printer Drivers
Xerox provides drivers for a variety of page description languages and operating systems. The 
following drivers are available:  
Driver
Source*
Description
Windows PostScript Driver
CD-ROM and 
Web
The PostScript driver is recommended to take 
full advantage of your printer's custom 
features and genuine Adobe® PostScript®. 
(Default driver)
PCL5e
CD-ROM and 
Web
The Printer Command Language driver can 
be used for applications requiring PCL.
Note
Note
Note
Supported in all operating systems.
PCL6
CD-ROM and 
Web
The Printer Command Language driver can 
be used for applications requiring PCL.
Note
Note
Note
For Windows 2000 and Windows XP only.
Xerox Walk-Up Printing Driver 
(Windows)
Web only
This driver enables printing from a PC to any 
Xerox PostScript-enabled printer. This is 
especially helpful for mobile professionals 
who travel to multiple locations and need to 
print to different printers.
Macintosh OS Driver
CD-ROM and 
Web
This driver enables printing from a Macintosh 
OS 9.x or OS X (version 10.1 or higher).
UNIX Driver 
Web only
This driver enables printing from UNIX 
operating systems.
Find certain drivers on the Printer Installer and Utilities CD-ROM that came with your printer. All of 
these drivers can be found on the web at 
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