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Printer setup on Windows 7

Instructions to add new EECS Network Printer:

  1. Connect to your EECS home directory:
     Click Start -> Run -> \\pcserver\homes -> Enter EECS username/ password and press Enter 
  2. Run the printer port registry file located
     \\pcserver\research-download\eecs-prt-drivers\ports.reg
  3. Choose the correct printer model from the list (based on the print queue) and copy the driver path.
    https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/dept/tdb/printers:printers:start
  4. Connect to shared printer:
     Click Start -> Run -> \\pcserver, double click the "Printer queue name" that you like to add.
  5. Prompt will say that “No driver found”, press Ok → Have Disk → Paste in the printer driver path from Step 3.
  6. Restart computer

Instructions to update driver for EECS Network Printer:

  1. Connect to your EECS home directory (Start → Run → Type \\pcserver\homes → type in your EECS username and password and press Enter)
  2. Download printer driver and extract to temporary location. https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/dept/tdb/printers:printers:start
  3. Start → type “Devices and Printer” then Enter
  4. Right click on Printer queue name (eg. prt2-col) → choose Printer Properties
  5. Click “Advance” tab → New Driver → Next → Have Disk → Choose temporary location that you extracted the printer drive in Step 2
  6. Choose the correct printer model from the list (based on the print queue). https://wiki.eecs.yorku.ca/dept/tdb/printers:printers:start
  7. Click “Finsh” → Ok
printers/print-win7/start.1547852214.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/01/18 17:56 by ulya

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