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Chapter 3 Silent Installation

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Silent Installation

ThischapterdescribestheproceduresfortheSilentInstallation.

What Is a Silent Installation?

ThesilentinstallationisamethodthatcopiestheexistingAPDsetupenvironmenttoother

computerswithoutuseroperation.Therearethefollowingtwomethods.

❏ Usingasilentinstallationpackage(*.exe)

Createthesilentinstallationpackageonthecopysourcecomputer.

 Executingthisfileonanothercomputerenablesyoutoinstall

theminimumenvironment

foroperatingtheAPDfromalltheenvironmentofthecopysourcecomputer.

 Whenthesilentinstallationisexecutedwiththisfile,youcannotcreatethesilent

installationpackageorthescriptfileforthesilentinstallation,oraddanotherprinter.

❏ Usingascriptfile(*.inf)forthe

silentinstallation

Createthescriptfileforthesilentinstallationonthecopysourcecomputer.

 ExecutingthisfileandtheAPDfile(APD_4xxE.exe)onanothercomputerenablesyouto

installthecompleteAPDenvironmentofthecopysourcecomputer.

 Intheenvironmentinwhichthesilentinstallationisexecutedwiththisfile,youcancreate

thesilentinstallationpackageorthescriptfileforthesilentinstallation,andyoucanalso

addanotherprinter.

Withthisfunction,youcanincorporatetheAPDinstallationintoabatchfile,arecoverydiscfor

theOS,andaninstallerofanapplication.

Also,youcan

addthecommandoptionsforthesilentinstallationtoenablethefollowing

functions.

 Notificationwhencompletingtheinstallation

 Restartsettingaftercompletingtheinstallation

 Upgradeinstallationsettings

 Installingwithoutdisplayingscreens.

Thismethodisusefulespeciallyinthefollowingcases:

 Youcanmakethesamesettingtomultiplecomputerseasily.

 Evencomputerswithnodisplayscanbesetup.



Incaseofprintingtrouble,theAPD enviro nm entofthecomputer withanerror canberecreatedonanother

computerbyusingthescriptfileforthesilentinstallationofthatcomputer,anditimprovestheserviceand

maintenancefuncti on.(Intheenvironmentinwhichthesilentinstallati o nisexecutedwith

thesilent

installationpackage,thescriptfileforthesilentinstallationcannotbecreated.)

 To use the silent installation, Internet Explorer version 4.0 or later is required.

 When APD3 or APD4 have been already installed in the target computers, uninstall

those before the silent installation.