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Stage the two universal print drivers at imaging time

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A bay comes off the line unable to build a printer queue. Set-ShopdbPrinters.ps1
creates queues against drivers that are already present and skips any that are
not, so a freshly imaged PC silently gets no printers until some later
enforcement cycle tops it up.

The two universals are 100 MB and resolve the overwhelming majority of the
fleet's printers. The four device-specific drivers are another 126 MB and are
deliberately NOT here - they belong only on bays that own that hardware, and
those bays pick them up from the runtime manifest.

NO WAVE GATE on these entries, unlike the runtime ones. Waves exist because ~300
bays share one runtime share and GE-Enforce spreads them across only five
minutes; imaging runs a handful of bays at a time on the isolated PXE LAN that
already moves multi-GB WIMs, so there is no stampede to prevent.

DETECTION IS THE SPOOLER'S OWN KEY, not pnputil, and the difference is not
cosmetic. Installing a printer driver is two steps: pnputil /add-driver stages
the package into the driver store, Add-PrinterDriver registers it with the
spooler. Get-PrinterDriver - which is what Set-ShopdbPrinters consults - reads
the spooler. Measured on a Win11 bay: after Remove-PrinterDriver the spooler
reports the driver gone while pnputil still lists the package, so a pnputil-
detected entry would report compliant forever while every queue kept skipping. A
broken bay that looks healthy is the worst outcome available here.

The payload is not in git, matching every other installer under preinstall/:
stage printer-drivers/ onto the PXE share alongside the rest.
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2026-08-19 17:16:38 -04:00
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"DetectionMethod": "File",
"DetectionPath": "C:\\ProgramData\\PXEDrivers\\drivers-installed.marker",
"PCTypes": ["gea-shopfloor-collections", "gea-shopfloor-nocollections", "gea-shopfloor-common", "gea-shopfloor-cmm", "gea-shopfloor-genspect", "gea-shopfloor-heattreat", "gea-shopfloor-keyence", "gea-shopfloor-partmarker", "gea-shopfloor-waxtrace"]
},
{
"_comment": "HP universal print driver, staged at imaging so a bay comes off the line able to build an HP queue without waiting on the SFLD share. Set-ShopdbPrinters.ps1 creates queues against drivers that are already present and SKIPS any that are not, so without this a freshly imaged bay silently gets no printers until a later enforcement cycle tops it up. NO WAVE GATE HERE, deliberately: waves exist because ~300 bays share one runtime share, whereas imaging runs a handful of bays at a time on the isolated PXE LAN that already moves multi-GB WIMs. Detection is the SPOOLER's driver key, not pnputil - pnputil only proves the package reached the driver store, and Get-PrinterDriver (what Set-ShopdbPrinters consults) reads the spooler, so a pnputil check goes green on a half-install. Payload is NOT in git: stage printer-drivers/ onto the PXE share like the other installer payloads.",
"Name": "ShopDB Printer Driver - HP Universal PS",
"Installer": "printer-drivers\\Install-ShopdbPrinterDrivers.ps1",
"Type": "PS1",
"InstallArgs": "-Only 'HP Universal Printing PS'",
"LogFile": "C:\\Logs\\PreInstall\\printer-drivers.log",
"DetectionMethod": "Registry",
"DetectionPath": "HKLM:\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\Environments\\Windows x64\\Drivers\\Version-3\\HP Universal Printing PS",
"PCTypes": ["gea-shopfloor-collections", "gea-shopfloor-nocollections", "gea-shopfloor-common", "gea-shopfloor-cmm", "gea-shopfloor-genspect", "gea-shopfloor-heattreat", "gea-shopfloor-keyence", "gea-shopfloor-partmarker", "gea-shopfloor-waxtrace"]
},
{
"_comment": "Xerox universal print driver. Same reasoning as the HP entry above. These two universals are 100 MB combined and resolve the overwhelming majority of the fleet's printers; the four device-specific drivers (DesignJet, Zebra ZT411, Epson C3500, FARGO card printer) are another 126 MB and are deliberately NOT staged at imaging - they belong only on the bays that have that hardware, and those bays pick them up from the runtime manifest on their next enforcement cycle.",
"Name": "ShopDB Printer Driver - Xerox Global PCL6",
"Installer": "printer-drivers\\Install-ShopdbPrinterDrivers.ps1",
"Type": "PS1",
"InstallArgs": "-Only 'Xerox Global Print Driver PCL6'",
"LogFile": "C:\\Logs\\PreInstall\\printer-drivers.log",
"DetectionMethod": "Registry",
"DetectionPath": "HKLM:\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Print\\Environments\\Windows x64\\Drivers\\Version-3\\Xerox Global Print Driver PCL6",
"PCTypes": ["gea-shopfloor-collections", "gea-shopfloor-nocollections", "gea-shopfloor-common", "gea-shopfloor-cmm", "gea-shopfloor-genspect", "gea-shopfloor-heattreat", "gea-shopfloor-keyence", "gea-shopfloor-partmarker", "gea-shopfloor-waxtrace"]
}
]
}