Durham Fire Department: Installing Shared Printer on Windows (ETS Internal)

This article has instructions to add the Durham Fire Department's shared printer to a UNH-Managed Windows computer. This article is for Internal use by ET&S staff.

Summary

This article has instructions to add the Durham Fire Department's shared printer to a UNH-Managed Windows computer. This article is for Internal use by ET&S staff.

*NOTE* These instructions are only applicable to UNH-managed devices. You will not be able to add the printer this way on a non-UNH device.

*NOTE* These instructions are only applicable to Windows PC devices. If you are trying to add the printer to a MacOS device, submit a Printer Help request ticket to ET&S.  If you do, please specify that this is the Durham Fire Department shared printer.

 

How-To

Instructions

Step 1 - Go to "Settings", "Bluetooth & devices", then "Printers & Scanners".

Step 2 - Choose the "Add Device" button.

Step 3 - After a brief pause, scroll until you see "The printer that I want isn't listed" and choose the "Add Manually" link 

 

Step 4 - Choose "Select a shared printer by name" and enter the following into the box:  \\UWP-FDPRINT-01\servicedfdmultiroom . Click "Next"

 

Step 5 - Windows will display a progress bar. Once it has completed, you will see the following screen. Click “Next”.

*NOTE* If you are prompted to enter Administrator credentials, please notify Kelley Fowler and report on which device this happened on.

 

Step 6 - The next page presents you with the option to print a test page, to make sure the printer was installed successfully. This is optional but recommended.

Step 7 - Once that is done, click “Finish”.

The printer should appear as "servicedfdmultiroom on UWP-FDPRINT-01" in Settings > Bluetooth & devices > Printers & scanners

 

 

Outcome

When the installation is complete, the Durham Fire Department shared printer will be available on the managed windows computer.

 

Further Readings

Manually Adding PaperCut Queues to Managed Windows Devices (ETS Internal)

Central Printing - public facing articles

• UNH Central Printing: Adding PaperCut Direct Print Queues to a Managed Computer
  • Add PaperCut Direct Print Queues to a Managed Windows Computer - Public Article from which much of this was copied

 

Need additional help?

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