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Standard Printing

Setting Up Standard Printing

To add a printer to your Windows 10 computer complete the following steps:

  1. Go to your Settings (press the Windows button and click the gear icon in the lower left corner), click on Devices, and select Printers & Scanners
    • Click the 鈥淎dd a printer or scanner鈥
Image of the add a printer button in Windows settings
  1. Next, find your printer on the list that appears. Generally all printers follow a standard naming convention of 鈥減s鈥+鈥漛uilding abbreviation鈥+鈥滷loor&Room Number鈥+(optional if there is more than one printer in the room)鈥漚,b,c,d,etc.鈥.
    • For example, a printer located in room 1211 in Dunton Tower would have the name 鈥減sdt1016鈥. The second printer in room 202 in the Architecture Building would have the name 鈥減saa202b鈥.
  2. If your printer name does not appear on the loaded list, scroll to the bottom and select 鈥淭he printer that I want isn鈥檛 listed鈥
Image of the "the printer that I want isn't listed" button in Windows settings
  1. Under 鈥淔ind a printer by other options鈥, choose 鈥淪elect a shared printer by name鈥 and add your printer in the following format. If you enter 鈥淺\printers\ps鈥, a complete list of departmental printers should appear. Select the one you want, then select 鈥淣ext鈥.
Image of where to type in the printer name in Windows settings

To add a printer to your Windows 11 computer complete the following steps:

If you are still unable to find your departmental printer, please contact the Information Technology Services Help Desk at extension 3700, or by email at ITSServiceDesk@杏吧原创.Ca.

Using Standard Printing

  1. Simply print any document like you normally would, after selecting your departmental printer as the device to which you want to send the print job.
Windows print window highlighting where to select which printer to user