Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Adding a Network Printer via WiFi to a non-network computer

Please follow below steps,

1.    Go to: Start menu
2.    Open: Control Panel
          a.    For Windows 7, open: Devices and Printers
          b.    For Windows XP, open: Printers and Faxes
3.    Click on: File --> Add a Printer
4.    Select: Add Network, Wireless or Bluetooth printer
          a.    This will search all network printers
5.    Select desired printer and click Next
6.    Rename the printer if desired and click Next
7.    Select: Do not share (unless you want the printer to be on the network) and click Next
          a.    This step will install the driver automatically
8.    Click on Print Test Page to assure the printer got installed.

If these steps do not work, then printer driver has to be manually installed; and retry the steps.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks! but I guess the problem was not the out of network laptop but the user logged on to other computer remotely and tried to print on our local network...duhh!! Those are two different networks...

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