If for some reason you are not able to locate the hostname, or are unable to add the printer via hostname, gather its IP address either by searching on greg, or collecting it from the printers configuration page.This is the preferred method of adding a printer.Remember, hostnames are entered in the format of: Printer'.by typing "printer" in the comments field, and selecting the departmental vlan.by searching for the DNS Name (example NH1%p% will find all the printers in Nobel Hall on the 1st floor) in the username.See a list of managed printers here: Fleet List Hostname Center for International and Cultural Educationįinding Printer Information Managed Printers.And the Print Preview command, which lets you preview the document on screen before it is printed.The Quick Print command we just discussed, which sends the document straight to the default printer.Print is the default print command, which displays the Print dialog (to let you select the number of pages to print, collation options, color vs.In office 2007, applications list the three printing options under the Office Menu, with each print command explained: If you Print button does not bypass the Print dialog to send the output to your default printer, ask your system administrator or the next door teenager to customize the command on the toolbar to use Quick Print instead of the default Print command.
On versions of Office before Office 2007 (like Office 2000/2002/2003), the Print button on the toolbar prints straight to the Windows default printer, without going through the Print dialog to gain access to the options and settings available in the Print dialog, you simply print the longer way, by going to File > Print. Some application, like all the Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.) have a special feature designed specifically to take advantage of Windows XP's default printer: it is called "Quick Print". Hitting Enter once the Print dialog is visible will send the print output to your default printer (no need to make sure that the printer you wanted was selected, unless you specifically want to print to an alternate printer). If " Set as Default Printer" is not visible in the context menu, you probably right-clicked on a printer already set as Windows' default printer.
On the context menu that opened, click " Set as Default Printer".įrom now on, Windows XP will recognize as default printer the printer or print driver you just selected: whenever you try to print a document from an application, this will be the printer automatically pre-selected for you by Windows XP. To set another printer or print driver as the default, simply right-click on the icon corresponding to the printer you want as default. Choose your default printer for Windows XP
Windows XP displaying a list of local printers, network printers, and print drivers -Īs you can see from the screenshot above, the default printer is currently set to the PDF print driver (this is Adobe's piece of software that allows you to print to a PDF file instead of printing the output on paper).
The simplest way to set Windows XP's default printer is to go through the Start Menu: click on the Start button, and choose " Printers and Faxes" - this will open the " Printers and Faxes" window, which contains a list of all the printers and print drivers Windows XP recognizes on your computer it will also show an " Add Printer" icon, which you would use to manually add a printer Windows XP has not detected (like a network printer or an old printer whose hardware has not been detected.)
Open the "Printers and Faxes" Control Panel in Windows XP