If your network-capable printer is not automatically detected by Windows, you volition demand to ready it upwardly manually. This will involve going to your printer menu, configuring a TCP/IP a port, and installing the drivers. Follow the steps below to add a network printer in Windows ten.

  1. Open up the Windows Starting time menu. This is the button in the lesser left corner of your screen that is shaped like the Windows logo.

  2. Then click to Settings. This is the gear-shaped icon just above the power button in the Kickoff menu.

  3. Then click on Devices.

  4. Adjacent, select Printers & Scanners. You can find this in the left sidebar.

  5. So click Add together a Printer.

    Notation: In one case Windows detects your printer, all yous have to do is follow the on-screen instructions for setting it up. If this is the case, y'all can finish at this signal. However, if Windows does not auto-observe your printer, go on to the next step.

  6. Click "The printer that I want isn't listed." Once yous select this, the "Add together Printer" screen will pop up.

  7. Choose "Add a local printer or network printer with transmission settings," and click next.

  8. Click on "Create a New Port" and select Standard TCP/IP from the drop-down box.

  9. Type in your printer's IP address or URL (e.chiliad. printer-one.school.edu) and click next. At this betoken, your computer will endeavour to notice the TCP/IP port. This might accept some time.

  10. Select the advisable device blazon. Employ i of the following methods to identify/install the appropriate printer commuter:

    • In the drop-downward menu for Standard Device Type, select the device type that corresponds with your printer brand. For example, if yous have a Canon printer, choose either Canon Network Printer or Canon Network Printing Device. Windows will then discover the driver model. You will find that once it detects the commuter, your printer will be added to the list of devices in the Printer & Scanners menu.

    • Install the print driver. Click on the box that says Have Disk. You volition be instructed to install the driver from the manufacturer'southward installation deejay (or a download of the commuter) and re-create it from where the driver is located.

  11. Set up optional preferences. Type a printer name if you want to. Otherwise, click Next. In the next window, you could as well set upwards ready up printer sharing if yous similar (generally you should not exercise this). One time done, click on Next.

  12. Print a test page. You will go a message that you have successfully set upward the printer. From here, you can print a test page or click on Stop.