Dell 5100cn, User Manual

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Setting Up for Shared Printing
Point and Print
Peer-to-Peer
You can share your new printer on the network using the Drivers and Utilities CD that shipped with your printer, or using
Microsoft's point and print or peer-to-peer method. However, if you use one of the Microsoft methods, you will not have
all of the features, such as the status monitor and other printer utilities, that are installed with the Drivers and Utilities CD.
To share a locally-attached printer on the network, you need to share the printer, and then install the shared printer on
network clients:
1. Click Start ® Settings ® Printers .
2. Right-click this printer icon and select Properties .
3. From the Sharing tab, check the Shared check box, and then type a name in the Shared as text box.
4. Click Additional Drivers and select the operating systems of all network clients printing to this printer.
5. Click OK .
If you are missing files, you are prompted to insert the server operating system CD.
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 to
the printer.
Now that the printer is shared, you can install the printer on network clients using the point and print method or the peer-
to-peer method.
Point and Print
This method is usually the best use of system resources. The server handles driver modifications and print job processing.
This lets network clients return to their programs much faster.
If you use the point and print method, a subset of driver information is copied from the server to the client computer. This
is just enough information to send a print job to the printer.
1. On the Windows desktop of the client computer, double-click Network Neighborhood .
2. Locate the host name of the server computer, and then double-click the host name.
3. Right-click the shared printer name, and then click Install .
Wait for the driver information to copy from the server computer to the client computer, and for a new printer
object to be added to the Printers folder. The time this takes varies, based on network traffic and other factors.
Close Network Neighborhood .
4. Print a test page to verify print installation.
5. Click Start ® Settings ® Printers .
6. Select the printer you just created.
7. Click File ® Properties .
8. From the General tab, click Print a Test Page .