Sharing printer in network

Printer Sharing in the network 

How to share printers in the network?

There is no doubt that the networks have contributed greatly in helping us get rid of the consumption of more time and wasting more money for the purchase of expensive terminals   Such as printers, for example, connecting them with every computer there in the company where we can now purchase only one printer and make it available to all users tied to the network and there are two ways to do this:The first way: includes arrived printer directly with a personal computers, and the use of Operating system settings for use with the participation of others present on the network.

The second way: He had reached the printer to the network, either directly Using wire   "Ethernet" standard if the printer has a network card CDs, or through the print server box.

In this article I will discuss how to add the printer on the network and it should be noted that the operating system the user is a windows server2003.

1. The terminology used in windows server 2003

1 - Print device: a printer device and is divided into two types:

•   Local-print device: print device connector to the computer directly.
•   net work-print device: a device intended to print directly to the network connector.

 

2 - Printer: Printer is the destination for Driver.

3 - Print driver: programs that are running the printer (Software).

4 - Print server: is a computer provides a printing service to other computers in the network.

 

2. Requirements to create a network printer

1 - print server needs to a large RAM memory and to process documents and if the size of a large number of documents and memory do not meet the work will worsen the performance of printing.

2 - disk space is used must also be large in order to ensure that the server can store all print jobs in the disk to be sent to the print device, and if there is sufficient space for users will show error messages when you request a print.

3. The most important tips for the preparation of the network printer

 

1 - select the printing needs of the institution.

2 - Determining the printing needs of users.

3 - Determine the required number of servers printers (print server).

4 - Select the print job   Top priority.

3.1. Two examples illustrate how to design a printer on the network

 

4. Printer Setup

4.1. How to add and share a local printer (Local print device)

Before you begin you must know the following:

1 - Design a device to function as a server (print server).

2 - port (port) printer connection is through it with your computer.

3 - make sure that the printer drivers are present.

4 - Choose the name of the printer.

5 - Set the default printer.

6 - assign the share name.

7 - to locate the device that will be printed by this printer.

8 - Print Test Page.

And to begin to add a local printer:

Figure 3

After clicking on the Add Printer window will appear the following:

Figure 4

We are pressing on the following:

Figure 5

We choose the first option.

• Some may wonder why we choose a local printer while the printer type that we have a network printer?

Question correctly, but is intended in this window is to select the site for the Printer object you have on your PC or on another machine so that if we choose the first option we will be able to print directly, without interference from another device, but if we choose the second option, it means that my files will go to There is another device by the printer object and then moving to the printer and thus become a device controlled the work of the printer.

 

Then move to the next:

Figure 6

Of the first option we choose the port (port) is appropriate if the printer is directly related to the wire with the computer that the printer in the sense that we have is a kind of a local printer (local printer).

Then go to the following:

 

               

Figure 7

From Figure 7 we choose the name of the company, which belongs to this printer and type.

Then move to the next:

 

Figure 8

From Figure 8 we choose the name of the printer and then move to the next:

Figure 9

Through this window we will decide whether we want to make this printer a personal or shared, that we have chosen the first option to be thus concluded to add a local printer, but a personal but if we choose the second option will need to enter the share name because we have chosen to make the printer shared and then we will move the window of the following:

Figure 10

 

Of Figure 10 is entered the place where the printer (Location), and in the field we enter the next want to add any comments (comment)

Thus, we concluded Add a local printer, but common, after the completion of the addendum will show us a window through which we define whether we want to print a paper for the test.

4.2. How to add and share network printers (Network print device)

• Some of you may wonder if the printer that I own type of network, how can I add?
  It is very simple go back to step choose the port as shown in Figure 11 below and choose the second option:

Figure 11

We believe that we have two types of ports, namely:

Local port: printers connected to your computer immediately.

Standard TCP / IP port: is often used

* Adopt most of the printers connected directly to the network protocol is now TCP / IP.
* Easier to port TCP / IP communication standard printers far by the port or protocol TCP / IP.

  'll Give us another window:

Figure 12

We choose the following:

We enter the address of the printer on the network and ascribe the name of the port:

Figure 13

Then choose Next to get to this window:

Figure 14

We have thus able to enter the port of the printer, Figure 14 presents a summary of what I have chosen

Then choose the end (finish) and complete the steps as before.

• Now, let's say that Ahmed network administrator in a company and I need to add a printer so that all staff can print from which certain powers, but what should he do?

  It's very simple, only needs to perform the steps above, then move the printer to be chosen by the post pressing right mouse button and then choose which properties to show his options are as follows:

 

Figure 15

From San safety Ahmad can determine the powers of the users and groups as well as adding users and groups you want to print their participation.

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