TO SET UP PRINTER IN A LOCAL NETWORK

 


To set up printer in a local network for print do the following steps to configure it.

1.         Connect your printer to the local network with UTP cable to the network port of the printer

2.         Go to the control panel in your computer as shown below



3.         Find Hardware and Sound as shown above and click View devices and Printers as shown below:


4.         After click view devices and printer then the dialogue box will appear as shown below then click Add printer 


5.         Then the following dialogue box will appear as shown below then click the printer that was not listed as shown


6.         After that the following dialogue box will appear then click using ip address of hostname as shown below and then click Next


7.         In the following dialogue box select TCP/IP and then fill the IP address of your printer as shown below and then click next to proceed with the installation


8.    After choose your printer manufacturer in the list as shown then click Next, if you have not seen your name for your printer, you can click have a disk and install your driver from the disk as shown and then click Next


9.         After you will ask to type a printer name as shown below and then click Next


10.         After click do not share printer then click next as shown below


11.         Then check set as default printer as shown and click finish. You set your printer as default in order to differentiate it from other printer for you print directly without select which printer for printing to save time.


12.         Go to the control panel and click view devices and printers and then right click the device as shown below and choose printer properties


13.         Then the following dialogue box will appear and click preference 



14.         After click preference the following dialogue box will appear then in the page size select A4 and other setting select 1 sided printing then click apply then ok.


15. then the following figure will appear as shown below and then click ok to finish the set up.


16.         Then finish the setting by click ok and close the control panel, if you want to check the printer is okey you click print test page to see if it is working.



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