Lesson 1: Managing Printers in C#.NET

Paint QR Code ISO/IEC18004 in C#.NET Lesson 1: Managing Printers

3. Double-click Add Printer. The Add Printer wizard appears. 4. On the Choose A Local Or Network Printer page, if the printer is attached directly to the server, click Add A Local Printer. If the printer is wireless or attached to the network, click Add A Network, Wireless, Or Bluetooth Printer. 5. If the Choose A Printer Port page appears, select the physical port to which the printer is attached, as shown in Figure 12-1. Click Next.

6. If you are installing a network printer, select the printer or click The Printer That I Want Isn t Listed and specify the network location of the printer. Click Next. 7. If you are installing a network printer and you select Add A Printer Using A TCP/IP Address Or Hostname, you next see the Type A Printer Hostname Or IP Address page. In the Hostname Or IP Address text box, type the name or IP address of the printer. Click Next.

The Network Printer Installation Wizard, described in the following section, Installing a Printer Using the Print Management Snap-in, does a much better job of finding network printers.

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8. If the Install The Printer Driver page appears, select a manufacturer and printer to use a driver included with Windows Server 2008. To retrieve updated drivers from the Microsoft Web site, click Windows Update. To use a driver included with the printer or downloaded from the manufacturer s Web site, click Have Disk, select the driver, and then click OK. Click Next. 9. On the Type A Printer Name page, type a name for the printer, and then click Next. 10. On the Printer Sharing page, choose whether to share the printer. If you do share the printer, type a location that will allow users to physically find the printer. Click Next. 11. Click Finish. The printer is immediately available for use from the server. If you chose to share the printer, it is also accessible to authorized users.

After connecting a printer either to the network or to a server, follow these steps to install it using the Print Management snap-in (the exact steps vary depending on the type of printer you install): 1. In Server Manager, right-click Roles\Print Services\Print Management\Print Servers \<Server>, and then choose Add Printer. The Network Printer Installation Wizard appears. 2. On the Printer Installation page, as shown in Figure 12-2, choose an installation method, and then click Next.

3. The pages that follow will vary depending on the printer installation method you chose. For example, if you chose to search for a network printer, the Network Printer Search page (as shown in Figure 12-3) appears. Respond to the prompts and click Next.

4. On the Printer Driver page, choose whether to use an existing driver, install a new driver, or use the printer driver that the wizard selected. Then, click Next. 5. If you choose to install a new driver, the Printer Installation page appears. Select a driver by first selecting the appropriate manufacturer and then selecting the printer model. Click Next. 6. On the Printer Name And Sharing Settings page, type a name for the printer. To immediately share the printer, select the Share This Printer check box and type a name and location. Click Next. 7. On the Printer Found page, click Next. 8. Depending on the type of printer, you might also be prompted to perform printer-specific configuration, as demonstrated by Figure 12-4.

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9. On the Completing The Network Printer Installation Wizard page, click Finish. After completing the wizard, the printer is ready to be used.

The simplest way to share a printer is to right-click the printer in Control Panel and then choose Sharing. In the Print Management snap-in, right-click the printer, and then choose Manage Sharing. As shown in Figure 12-5, you can select the Share This Printer check box to allow other users to connect to the printer. Select the Render Print Jobs On Client Computers check box to allow clients to handle the processor-intensive rendering process or clear the check box to push the processing to the print server. Select the List In The Directory check box to allow the printer to be found in Active Directory. If the client s operating system uses the same driver as the server, the client can automatically download the driver the first time the client connects to the printer. If a client requires a different driver for example, if a client computer uses a 32-bit version of Windows and the server uses a 64-bit version of Windows you should install the additional driver on the server to allow the client to automatically install the driver. From the Sharing tab, click the Additional Drivers button, select the check boxes for the platforms you want to support (as shown in Figure 12-6), click OK, and then select the printer driver.