If your technique for the print output fails, you need to understand how to set up the printer after setting the cause of the fault.Sometimes it can be difficult to make a non-professional.The proposed material in the article is designed to help and suggest a plan of action for various situations.
Troubleshooting printer malfunction
common problem of office equipment you can remember about your printer, which, in spite of external operation, ceases to print documents.To make it function requires unlocking.To do this through the "Start" button to enter the menu and select "Control Panel", and in it - "Printers and Faxes".Use the mouse to click on the printer icon using the right key.
If the menu has arisen command called "Resume Printing" means suspension of sending documents to the printer.The same value will be on the status of the printer under its icon in the folder.Now, consider how to configure the printer so that he could work again.To unlock the printing the documents, it is necessary to click the left mouse button on the status bar.If you choose "Postpone Printing" in the status of readiness of the equipment will mean "not connected" and the unit will not print the documents.Then the pop-up menu, select the printer on-line and click the mouse button.This will bring up the status of "Ready".
considered when connecting devices to your computer may have their own problems.So before you can be a question: how to set up the printer, if there are no drivers for it?Typically, with the device in the bundled disc.If not, you can use the Internet and download the driver from the manufacturer's website, paying attention to the brand of the device and its compatibility with the operating system of your computer.
Setting up the printer on the network
most often in offices and institutions of computers combined into a network.The printer, as the most common device for displaying information, used in such systems and often not even in a single form.To understand how to configure a network printer, consider the following example.
printer on the local network can be entered in it as an independent object, and then it has its own monitor settings button.Devices for printing or connected to a computer via LPT port, or via USB.The printer, which is an individual representative of the network assigned IP-address.
To set up the printer on a network, it must be directly connected to it, or it is connected to the computer and set the general access to it.Here it is necessary to act in the same way as in the case of connecting a local printer.The device is connected to a computer, install the driver.Entering the menu button "Start", you need to find in the "Control Panel", "Printers and Faxes".There will be lists all the devices that are connected to that particular computer.After selecting the icon for your device, click on it right mouse button and select the menu "Sharing".In the new window, you must choose the tab "Access."The switch must be installed on general access to this printer.In the new window, it is possible to define a new name that will be seen by all participants in the network.It is best to make this device the default printer, not to look for it every time from the general list and print the files directly.
Many people face the problem of how to configure the printer for sending documents to print from the computer on which the Windows 7 operating system to a printer connected to the machine with Windows XP.For a device to be shared.Further, it is necessary to specify the name.Opening the panel "Network and Internet", check whether the network printer is visible to XP.Then click on the link "Overview of computers on the network."It is necessary to find the name of the computer that is in Windows XP.According to it, double-click the mouse.Select the desired printer from squeaking and right-click on the item "Connect".