I’ve been deploying more and more Snapdragon powered PCs for clients lately and generally they’re really good. They are fast, the battery life is great and they run all the apps people are using – either natively or via translation.
The one exception is printing to older (or even current) printers. When using an arm64-powered PC, print drivers MUST be arm64 architecture. x64 drivers will not work at all.
Most printers, particularly if they’re a couple of years old or more, do not have dedicated arm64 drivers.
Fortunately, many manufacturers have a generic or universal print driver that will usually at least allow you to print, and in some cases allow you to access more of the advanced functionality of the printer.
Xerox Global Print Driver
Xerox have a universal print driver for PCL and PostScript for Intel 64-bit (x64) and ARM (arm64)
https://www.support.xerox.com/en-us/product/global-printer-driver/downloads
You’ll need to select the OS as either Windows 11 or Windows 11 ARM64 from the drop-down menu.
HP Smart Universal Print Driver Series for Windows
Hewlett-Packard have universal print drivers for Intel 32-bit (x86), Intel 64-bit (x64) and ARM (arm64)
https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/supd/model/33835514
Konica Minolta Universal Printer Driver v4
Konica Minolta have a universal printer driver for Intel 32-bit (x86), Intel 64-bit (x64) and ARM (arm64)
I can’t seem to link directly to it, so go to the following page, select a relatively recent printer (I selected the bizhub C751i and then under Driver selected English and Windows 11 (ARM)
https://www.konicaminolta.com.au/support#drivers
This gave me a link to download the universal driver which has 32 and 64-bit Intel as well as Windows 10 arm64 and Windows 11 arm4 installer executables. I can’t link directly to the downloaded driver as it’s on an Amazon CloudFront CDN.
Edit: June 2025
As at the end of June, 2025, it doesn’t look like Lexmark yet have an arm64 universal print driver. If and when they do release one, It will likely be listed here:
https://www.lexmark.com/en_us/technical-support/universal-print-driver-support.html
Ricoh advise users to print via the Mopria protocol (i.e. the built-in drivers in Windows) as per this KB article: https://kb.gsd.ricoh.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/284889
It’s worth noting that the built-in drivers will usually work, but may lack features that the dedicated print drivers provide. If and when they update their universal print driver it will probably be listed here:
https://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/rc3/model/p_i/p_i.htm?lang=en
Toshiba doesn’t appear to have a universal print driver for x64, let alone arm64.
what about a CANON ?
It seems like you might be out of luck unless you can get it working with something even more generic like the Open XPS print driver.
Canon do have a list of printers supported on arm64, however it seems to be their smaller inkjet printers that they’re prioritising support for:
https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/s/article/FAQ100604
According to someone on Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1gzt5ky/comment/lyzdr9m/
The Xerox universal print driver may also work with Canon printers.
sharp Universal Printer Driver arm64
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Is there anything for Lexmark or Ricoh?
Lexmark? Doesn’t look like it. I’d imagine if and when they make it available you’ll be able to find it listed here:
https://www.lexmark.com/en_us/technical-support/universal-print-driver-support.html
Ricoh? Apparently they print via the Mopria protocol as outlined here: https://kb.gsd.ricoh.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/284889
If and when they update their universal print driver it will probably be listed here:
https://support.ricoh.com/bb/html/dr_ut_e/rc3/model/p_i/p_i.htm?lang=en
Anything for Toshiba 3025 or 409S?
I can’t even find an x86/x64 version of the Toshiba universal print driver, let alone one for arm64.