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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 -> type \\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 Windows 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”.
     Click OK -> Have Disk -> Paste the driver path from Step 3. Click OK.
  6. Choose the printer make and model and Click OK.
  7. Restart computer

Instructions to update driver for 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. Edit printer properties:
    Click Start -> type/choose "Devices and Printer" then Enter
    Right click on Printer queue name (eg. prt2-col) -> choose Printer Properties
    Click "Advance" tab -> New Driver -> Next -> Have Disk -> 
    Paste the driver path from Step 3. Click OK.
  5. Choose the printer make and model and Click OK.
  6. Restart computer
printers/print-win7/start.1548083050.txt.gz · Last modified: 2019/01/21 10:04 by namtran

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