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Dell A940 All In One Personal Printer User Manual

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Using your printer

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To check that the printer was successfully shared.

• Make sure the printer object in the Printers folder shows it is shared. For

example, in Windows 2000, a hand is shown underneath the printer icon.

• Browse Network Neighborhood. Find the host name of the server and look

for the shared name you assigned the printer.

Now, follow these instructions while you are at the other person’s computer:

1

Click Start

Settings

Printers.

2

Click Add Printer to launch the Add Printer wizard.

3

Click Network Print Server.

4

Select the network printer from the Shared printers list. If the printer is not

listed, type in the path of the printer in the text box.
For example:\\\
The server host name is the name of the server computer that identifies it

to the network. The shared printer name is the name assigned during the

server installation process.

5

Click OK.
If this is a new printer, you may be prompted to install a printer driver. If no

system driver is available, then you will need to provide a path to available

drivers.

6

Select whether you want this printer as the default printer for this client,

and then click Finish.

Print a test page to verify printer installation.

1

Click Start

Settings

Printer.

2

Select the printer you just created.

3

Click File

Properties.

4

From the General tab, click Print Test Page.
When a test page prints successfully, printer installation is complete.