Installing Plug and Play Printers

For Plug and Play-compliant printers, all you need to do is plug the printer cable into a port and start Windows 95. The printer reports its device ID to Windows 95, which searches INF files to find the ID that matches the values reported by the printer and then proceeds with installation in the following ways:

• If an exact match is found, Windows 95 automatically installs the correct printer support.
• If an exact match is not found, but a compatible driver is found, Windows 95 displays a dialog box showing the device was found and a compatible driver is available. You can then provide a disk containing a Windows 95 driver that is an exact match, ask Windows 95 to install the compatible driver it has found, or ask Windows 95 not to install a driver at all. Windows 95 automatically determines the best driver to use.