To add a network printer detailed steps

How do I add a network printer? First, in the Start menu, click Settings, click Printers and Faxes, open the menu, select Add Printer in the upper-left corner, click Next in the Printer wizard, and then select: Network printer or a printer connected to another computer, clicking Next, point to browse the printer, Select each other's printer, or directly enter the location and model of the other printer, then next, complete it. This allows you to use a print server to set the print without the network interface to a true network printer.

Workaround and steps:

Step One: Configure the print server to assign IP to the printer

1. The first time you use or change an IP, you need to install the Print Server Setup program on any computer in the same network segment. In this case, the fixed-screen print server, the other similar.

2. Install and start the fixed-screen printing service program, pop up the first selection screen:

3. Select "Product Software Installation", pop up the "Select Installer's Language" dialog and select "Chinese (Simplified)" to:

4. Wait a moment to pop up the dialog box, click the "First Step" button:

5. In the "User Information" step, with the default, click the "First Step" button:

6. In the Destination Folder dialog box, also use the default, do not recommend changes. Click the first step button:

7. Finally click "Finish" to start the installation:

8. After the installation is complete, the installation screen will pop up, click the "Finish" button to start the Setup program:

9. In this setup program, the fixed-network print server in the network is automatically identified, and the relevant information is listed. Select the desired print server, fill in the IP information you want in the solid state IP, and then click the request button:

10. Note that this is only for the print server to set the IP, so the printer can be replaced later, and the print server does not need to change.

Step Two: Add a network printer

1. If your printer has a network interface, you do not need the above steps, just print out the configuration of the printer, there is the relevant IP information.

2. Similar to the steps for installing a USB printer. Click the Start button and select Printers and Faxes:

3. In the Printers and Faxes folder, double-click the Add Printer icon:

4. Click the "Next" button in the "Welcome" screen:

5. Select "Connect to local printer for this computer" and click the "Next" button:

6. Select the following "Create new port" and "Standard TCP/IP port" entries in the "Select Printer Port" interface and click the "Next" button:

7. Pop up the new window and click the "Next" button directly:

8. Then in the Add Port interface, enter the IP that you just set with the printer server, and click the Next button:

9. Finally, click the Finish button directly to return to the Add Printer Wizard dialog box:

10. Select the printer driver in the dialog box and click the Next button:

11. Then "Next", in the final dialog box, click the "Finish" button to start adding:

12. Wait a while. Network printer add complete.