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Setting up a network printer on a computer

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pbertout Posted messages 1041 Status Member -  
pbertout Posted messages 1041 Status Member -
Hello everyone,

I am currently reinstalling a PC in a school, and I have a question.
In this school, there is a photocopier in an office connected to the school's network, of course. The person I'm doing this for would like to be able to print from their new PC and have those prints go to the photocopier in question. Hence my question, how should I go about installing the photocopier on the PC?

Thank you in advance

Pbertout

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    contrariness Posted messages 343 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243
     
    As with installing a printer, you need to install the photocopier driver on the new workstation...

    The easiest way is to let Windows search for the printer on the network (it needs to be on, of course, and ideally not in sleep mode)...

    Then it depends on the configuration. The simplest scenario is that the copier has a fixed address on the network.

    If you know the IP address of the printer, in the printer properties you add a port by specifying that address, and it should work.
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    1. pbertout Posted messages 1041 Status Member 95
       
      Hello,

      I didn't think that the installation was similar to a printer... In that case, thank you, I will test it once I finish installing everything.
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    2. contrariness Posted messages 343 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   6 243
       
      See what it looks like..

      Sometimes there are a few more complex cases where the copier has a RIP that wants to take care of everything.. in this case, the RIP generates a (or several) specific port, but you still have to find them in the list of available ports in the printer properties.
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      1. pbertout Posted messages 1041 Status Member 95 > contrariness Posted messages 343 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         
        Hello,

        The issue has been ongoing for a while now, in fact, the printer was correctly installed from the start, but a password was needed to unlock the device, and this had to be entered on the copier's screen, which is impossible from a PC...

        Thank you
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