How to Add and Remove Printers

How to Add and Remove Printers

Adding a Printer

1.      Open the Start Menu and type in the following and press enter. Note that we are no longer using \\printers and instead are using the full domain name of \\printers.nwpc.com.

      \\printers.nwpc.com



2.   After hitting enter, a list of printers will come up, from there simply double click the printer you wish to add.



3.   You will see a dialog come up as it connects and adds itself to your computer. Once the printer queue box comes up like below, you can simply close it and the printer has been added. You might need to close and reopen any software to refresh the printers within any specific software.




Removing a Printer

1.  To remove a printer, begin by opening the Start Menu type the following.

Control Panel



2. Under Hardware on the left side you will see a link for View devices and printers.



3. From the above list of printers, you simply need to right click on the printer you want to remove, and select Remove Device.



4. To set your printer as a default, you can follow the steps above for Removing a Printer, but on Step 3 instead of removing the printer you will click on “Set as Default Printer”.



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