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Setting up a shared printer – Canon imagePROGRAF GP-4000 User Manual

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Setting Up a Shared Printer

On the print server, set up sharing of the printer driver. Then from the client, set up the connection to the
print server.

1.

Install the printer driver

on the print server system

1.

2.

Display the

Devices and Printers

window

2.

Select the

Control Panel

->

Hardware and Sound

(

Hardware

) ->

Devices and Printers

.

The

Devices and Printers

window is displayed.

3.

Click the icon for the model name of printer to be shared

3.

Press the Alt key, and from the displayed

File

menu, select

Printer properties

->

Sharing

tab.

Important

• When starting up the software and performing install or uninstall, a confirmation or warning dialog

box may appear.
This dialog box appears when administrative rights are required to perform a task.
When you are logged on to an administrator account, click

Yes

(or

Continue

,

Allow

) to continue.

Some applications require an administrator account to continue. In such cases, switch to an
administrator account, and restart the operation from the beginning.

4.

Set sharing

4.

On the

Sharing

tab, check (or select)

Share this printer

, set the shared name as necessary, and then

click

OK

.

5.

If the print server and the client have different architectures (32 bit or 64 bit), install an

5.

additional driver

1.

Display the

Devices and Printers

,

Printers

, or

Printers and Faxes

window.

1.

2.

Select the printer icon, click

Print server properties

, and select the

Drivers

tab.

2.

3.

Click

Add...

.

3.

4.

When the

Add Printer Driver Wizard

window is displayed, click

Next

.

4.

5.

If the print server has a 32-bit architecture, select

x64

. If the print server has a 64-bit

5.

architecture, select

x86

. Then click

Next

.

6.

Click

Have Disk...

.

6.

7.

In the

Install From Disk

window, open the "Driver" folder of the downloaded printer driver,

7.

specify the "inf" file, and click

OK

.

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