Chapter 3 Silent Installation
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Silent Installation
ThischapterdescribestheproceduresfortheSilentInstallation.
What Is a Silent Installation?
ThesilentinstallationisamethodthatcopiestheexistingAPDsetupenvironmenttoother
computerswithoutuseroperation.Therearethefollowingtwomethods.
❏ Usingasilentinstallationpackage(*.exe)
Createthesilentinstallationpackageonthecopysourcecomputer.
Executingthisfileonanothercomputerenablesyoutoinstalltheminimumenvironment
foroperatingtheAPDfromalltheenvironmentofthecopysourcecomputer.
Whenthesilentinstallationisexecutedwiththisfile,youcannotcreatethesilent
installationpackageorthescriptfileforthesilentinstallation,oraddanotherprinter.
❏ Usingascriptfile(*.inf)forthesilentinstallation
Createthescriptfileforthesilentinstallationonthecopysourcecomputer.
ExecutingthisfileandtheAPDfile(APD_4xxE.exe)onanothercomputerenablesyouto
installthecompleteAPDenvironmentofthecopysourcecomputer.
Intheenvironmentinwhichthesilentinstallationisexecutedwiththisfile,youcancreate
thesilentinstallationpackageorthescriptfileforthesilentinstallation,andyoucanalso
addanotherprinter.
Withthisfunction,youcanincorporatetheAPDinstallationintoabatchfile,arecoverydiscfor
theOS,andaninstallerofanapplication.
Also,youcan
addthecommandoptionsforthesilentinstallationtoenablethefollowing
functions.
Notificationwhencompletingtheinstallation
Restartsettingaftercompletingtheinstallation
Upgradeinstallationsettings
Installingwithoutdisplayingscreens.
Thismethodisusefulespeciallyinthefollowingcases:
Youcanmakethesamesettingtomultiplecomputerseasily.
Evencomputerswithnodisplayscanbesetup.
Incaseofprintingtrouble,theAPDenvironmentofthecomputerwithanerrorcanberecreatedonanother
computerbyusingthescriptfileforthesilentinstallationofthatcomputer,anditimprovestheserviceand
maintenancefunction.(Intheenvironmentinwhichthesilentinstallationisexecutedwiththesilent
installationpackage,thescriptfileforthesilentinstallationcannotbecreated.)
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.
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