READ: Drivers
Kinds of Drivers
There are many different kinds of drivers. They are usually specific to the exact model of device that you are using - however, this is not always the case. For example, optical drives (DVD drives) use a universal optical driver. On the other hand, scanners have a separate driver for each model.Go to this Fujitsu website. Fujitsu is one of the leading scanner manufacturing companies. This website lists all of the fujitsu scanner drivers. You'll notice that each model scanner has a different driver for each type of operating system. This is because the drivers' job is to facilitate communications between the scanner and the OS.