How to Install a Printer?

Answer 1

When you install a printer on your computer, you are letting your operating system know that a specific kind of printer is hooked up.

To install a printer, start by following the printer’s instruction manual to assemble and hook up the printer. Once you have done this you need to install the printer software. Go to the start menu, find settings, and choose printers. From you you will double click where it says Add Printers.

This will open up a wizard called the Print Wizard. The Print Wizard will walk you through the steps of installing your printer. If it is a network printer, you should know its network path before completing the wizard. The wizard will ask you to insert the CD for your printer’s software. In some cases a pre-installed version of the software may already be available on the computer, although it could be outdated.

The wizard will ask you if you want to use the new printer as your default printer. You should select this option only if this is the printer that you want your computer to use automatically when you choose to print a document. This means that if you want your computer to print from a different printer, you will need to select that option from the print menu whenever you print a document. If this is the only printer that you have installed on the computer than select that you would like for this printer to be the default printer.

The wizard will then ask you if you would like to print out a test page. It is a good idea to do this. The test page will let you know if the printer is working properly. It will show you what the test page looks like on the screen. If it does not look like this when it prints out then there is a problem with the software.

When you are satisfied with the set up of your new printer, click on the button that says finish at the bottom of the wizard. This will close the wizard and allow you to resume normal computer work. That is it, from this point forward your new printer should be working.