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Networking a printer
Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here.
I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel |
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If you remove the spaces between Printer 1 (eg make it Printer1 and
Printer2) you'll find it much easier. Share out the Printer. Ensure both notebooks are in the same Workgroup. Add a Network Printer to the notebook without it.... the drivers are at the Canon website. http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/co...upportIndexAct -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "MB_" wrote in message ... Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here. I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel |
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If you remove the spaces between Printer 1 (eg make it Printer1 and
Printer2) you'll find it much easier. Share out the Printer. Ensure both notebooks are in the same Workgroup. Add a Network Printer to the notebook without it.... the drivers are at the Canon website. http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/co...upportIndexAct -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "MB_" wrote in message ... Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here. I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel |
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"MB_" wrote in message ... Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here. I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel Download the software from Canon. Download the instructions from Canon. As your printer connects to a USB port, the chain of programs which enable the printing is a bit complicated. Most of the program usually reside in a sub folder of \Program Files\ The only driver seems to be \Windows\System32\Drivers\usbprint.sys. Note that you searched with the wrong extension. Usbprint.sys was written by Microsoft. My desktop has an Epson R1900, and the folder in \Program Files\... has a number of programs and libraries for such. My desktop has an HP 5440, and its folder also contains lots of files. Jim |
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"MB_" wrote in message ... Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here. I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel Download the software from Canon. Download the instructions from Canon. As your printer connects to a USB port, the chain of programs which enable the printing is a bit complicated. Most of the program usually reside in a sub folder of \Program Files\ The only driver seems to be \Windows\System32\Drivers\usbprint.sys. Note that you searched with the wrong extension. Usbprint.sys was written by Microsoft. My desktop has an Epson R1900, and the folder in \Program Files\... has a number of programs and libraries for such. My desktop has an HP 5440, and its folder also contains lots of files. Jim |
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"Jim" wrote in message ... "MB_" wrote in message ... Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here. I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel Download the software from Canon. Download the instructions from Canon. As your printer connects to a USB port, the chain of programs which enable the printing is a bit complicated. Most of the program usually reside in a sub folder of \Program Files\ The only driver seems to be \Windows\System32\Drivers\usbprint.sys. Note that you searched with the wrong extension. Usbprint.sys was written by Microsoft. My desktop has an Epson R1900, and the folder in \Program Files\... has a number of programs and libraries for such. My desktop has an HP 5440, and its folder also contains lots of files. Jim Furthermore, if you wish to print from one machine to the other, the printer software is usually installed on both. (The R1900 software does not need to be installed on the remote systems, and there may be others for all I know.) Jim |
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"Jim" wrote in message ... "MB_" wrote in message ... Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here. I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel Download the software from Canon. Download the instructions from Canon. As your printer connects to a USB port, the chain of programs which enable the printing is a bit complicated. Most of the program usually reside in a sub folder of \Program Files\ The only driver seems to be \Windows\System32\Drivers\usbprint.sys. Note that you searched with the wrong extension. Usbprint.sys was written by Microsoft. My desktop has an Epson R1900, and the folder in \Program Files\... has a number of programs and libraries for such. My desktop has an HP 5440, and its folder also contains lots of files. Jim Furthermore, if you wish to print from one machine to the other, the printer software is usually installed on both. (The R1900 software does not need to be installed on the remote systems, and there may be others for all I know.) Jim |
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Log to this page, http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/co...oadDetailA ct Pull down the Select OS and click on Windows XP Jack (MS, MVP-Networking) "MB_" wrote in message ... Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here. I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel |
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Hi
Log to this page, http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/co...oadDetailA ct Pull down the Select OS and click on Windows XP Jack (MS, MVP-Networking) "MB_" wrote in message ... Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here. I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel |
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Ensure the Canon is shared, and make a note of the share name (as mentioned, remove any spaces in the sharename) Also make sure you know the name of the host computer (you can get this by typing 'set' into a cmd prompt) Now, on the laptop, go to the printers control panel. Select add printer. Specify a network printer and don't allow an automatic search. Instead, type the printer location as \\computername\printername -with the slashes literally as shown. Provided the two computers are running the same OS, it should offer to copy the driver over. If successful, that's it. Tip: You can also use the host computer's IP address instead of its name. It's also worth noting that multifunction print/fax/scan units are not always suitable as shared printers, as they typically require a monster driver-package which has to be installed locally. "MB_" wrote: Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here. I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel |
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Ensure the Canon is shared, and make a note of the share name (as mentioned, remove any spaces in the sharename) Also make sure you know the name of the host computer (you can get this by typing 'set' into a cmd prompt) Now, on the laptop, go to the printers control panel. Select add printer. Specify a network printer and don't allow an automatic search. Instead, type the printer location as \\computername\printername -with the slashes literally as shown. Provided the two computers are running the same OS, it should offer to copy the driver over. If successful, that's it. Tip: You can also use the host computer's IP address instead of its name. It's also worth noting that multifunction print/fax/scan units are not always suitable as shared printers, as they typically require a monster driver-package which has to be installed locally. "MB_" wrote: Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here. I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel |
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Thanks folks. It turned out to be very easy.
The Canon printer had already been set to share via my desktop. Then from each laptop, I just had to do ADD A Printer and then BROWSE for a network printer. It found the Canon printer and all went well. Mel "Anteaus" wrote in message ... Ensure the Canon is shared, and make a note of the share name (as mentioned, remove any spaces in the sharename) Also make sure you know the name of the host computer (you can get this by typing 'set' into a cmd prompt) Now, on the laptop, go to the printers control panel. Select add printer. Specify a network printer and don't allow an automatic search. Instead, type the printer location as \\computername\printername -with the slashes literally as shown. Provided the two computers are running the same OS, it should offer to copy the driver over. If successful, that's it. Tip: You can also use the host computer's IP address instead of its name. It's also worth noting that multifunction print/fax/scan units are not always suitable as shared printers, as they typically require a monster driver-package which has to be installed locally. "MB_" wrote: Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here. I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel |
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Thanks folks. It turned out to be very easy.
The Canon printer had already been set to share via my desktop. Then from each laptop, I just had to do ADD A Printer and then BROWSE for a network printer. It found the Canon printer and all went well. Mel "Anteaus" wrote in message ... Ensure the Canon is shared, and make a note of the share name (as mentioned, remove any spaces in the sharename) Also make sure you know the name of the host computer (you can get this by typing 'set' into a cmd prompt) Now, on the laptop, go to the printers control panel. Select add printer. Specify a network printer and don't allow an automatic search. Instead, type the printer location as \\computername\printername -with the slashes literally as shown. Provided the two computers are running the same OS, it should offer to copy the driver over. If successful, that's it. Tip: You can also use the host computer's IP address instead of its name. It's also worth noting that multifunction print/fax/scan units are not always suitable as shared printers, as they typically require a monster driver-package which has to be installed locally. "MB_" wrote: Howdy. I need some basic help for dummies here. I have a desktop. It has 2 printers. A parallel port Epson and a USB Canon Pixma IP4000. Each printer has sharing enabled (Printer 1 and Printer 2) I have 2 laptops. I have no problem printing to the Epson. I now want to add the Canon. How do I do this? Also, I no longer have the CD that came with the Canon. But I'm sure the driver is somewhere on my desktop. I can't find it. I searched C drive (using *.drv) but nothing looks correct. There must be a menu that shows the name/location of the driver? I am not sure how to proceed. Mel |
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