How to set up the printer

If your printing technique fails, you need to figure out how to set up the printer by first specifying the cause of the problem. Sometimes it can be difficult to do to an amateur. The material proposed in the article is intended to help and prompt the plan of action in various situations.

Troubleshoot a printer problem

Of the common problems of office equipment, you can recall the printer, which, despite external performance, stops printing documents. To make it work, you need to unlock it. To do this, enter the menu through the "Start" button and select "Control Panel", and in it - "Printers and Faxes". With the mouse cursor, click on the printer icon using the right key.

If there is a command in the appeared menu called "Resume print", it means the suspension of sending documents to print. The same value will be in the status of the printer under its icon in the folder. Now let's look at how to set up the printer so that it can work again. To remove the blocking from sending to print documents, you must click the left mouse button on the status bar. When the "Delay Print" command is selected, the status of the equipment will be "Not connected" and the device will not print documents. Then in the pop-up menu you should select the printer usage in the online mode and click the mouse button. After that, the status "Ready" appears.

If you connect this device to your computer, you may experience problems. So before you the question may arise: how to set up the printer if there are no drivers to it? Usually, a disc is included with the device in the kit. If it does not, you can use the Internet and download drivers from the manufacturer's website, paying attention to the brand of the device and its compatibility with your computer's operating system.

Setting up the printer on the network

Most often in offices and institutions computers are integrated into a local network. The printer, being the most common device for outputting information, is used in such systems, and sometimes not in a single form. To understand how to configure a network printer, consider the following example.

A printer on a local network can be entered into it as a standalone object, and then it has its own monitor and setup keys. Devices for printing connect to computers either through the LPT port, or via USB. A printer that is a separate network representative is assigned an IP address.

To configure the printer over a network, you must connect it directly to it, or it connects to a computer and shares it. Activate here as you would with a local printer. The device is connected to the computer, the drivers are installed. Entering the Start button menu, you need to find the "Printers and Faxes" in the Control Panel. Lists of all devices that are connected to this particular computer appear. After selecting the icon of the desired device, click on it with the right mouse button and select in the "Sharing" menu. In the new window, select the "Access" tab. The switch must be set to share this printer. In a new window, you can specify a new name, under which it will be visible to all network members. It is best to make this device the default printer, so that you do not search it from the general list every time and print the necessary files directly.

Many people are faced with the problem of how to set up the printer when sending documents to print from a computer on which the Windows 7 operating system is attached to a printer connected to a machine running Windows XP. The device must be shared. Next, he needs to specify a name. After opening the "Network and Internet" panel, check if the network printer is visible from XP. Then click the "Browse computers on the network" link. Here you need to find the name of the computer that is running Windows XP. Click on it with the mouse twice. Select the desired printer from the pic and right-click on the "Connect" item.