You're welcome to use the Win10 or global driver, of course. In general, I have just seen users have more issues with the v4 or global driver, than with the v3 driver.
Based on my experience, the Win7 (v3) drivers (in general) provide the best overall experience and interface for the user, with the least amount of day-to-day and job-to-job hassles that I find in the other drivers.
My bias may also be because I frequently have to resolve printing issues that users experience (quickly), so instead of trying to figure out why the Win10 (v4) driver and app are causing an issue, I recommend using the v3 driver and manual install since I'm familiar with it. And this usually resolves the issue they are seeing.
In your case, the responsibility of resolving these issues will fall on some one else’s shoulders (yours or your support team), so that portion of my preference is irrelevant.
You have a good point about Win11. I'm not sure what will happen when that becomes main-stream.
I found the driver thru google by doing a specific search for 6180 win7 driver, then had to dig a bit to find the one I was looking for. I provided the direct exe link, just as a convenience for you to download without the hassles of the many menus that I had to go thru to get to it.
The driver that you choose should be your decision. The one I provided is just my recommendation based on my daily experiences with many other products.
I recommend postscript for color devices because the color is much more accurate than with PCL. There is a huge difference on some products! Fonts are also better represented as well (in my experience). PS is a little slower out of the gate than PCL tho, so I recommend PCL for monochrome devices.
The other thing that I would normally recommend is that you use an IP port rather than allowing Win10 to setup a WSD port (which causes many issues). But based on your previous posts, you have already tackled that beast. (Thumbs Up!).
Andy
