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Tech Tip: Printing Predicament

TechTipDid you know that the campus has about 40 printers and 4 main copiers campus-wide? Did you also know that you have the ability to print to most any one of these printers? All of our printers and copiers are connected to our print server via the network. This way any particular printer/copier can be shared among the people sitting in its vicinity. We use our network group policies to automatically push out the connection for the two closest printers for every user. Not that really helps you in most cases but if you're ever in a bind and need to print something and your printers aren't working, you can connect and print to one of the others. All you have to do is open up Windows Explorer (the yellow folder at the bottom of your screen). In the address bar at the top of that window type in “\\IT-PRT”. (Do not include the quotes) This will give you a list of all of the printers attached to our server. Next you will right click on the one you want and click “Connect”. This will add that printer to your list of available printers. Notice that they mostly have the location built into the name. For example: “C1-Copy” stands for Care Center, 1st floor, copier.

So now when you click Print, towards the top, one of the options will be “Printer” or “Destination”. The printer name in this box should be your default printer. To change it, and print to another printer, click on the down arrow in the printer box or “Change” button and you should see your list of available printers. Select the one you want and print away.

To change your default printer go to “Start\ and Printers” or “Settings\Devices and Printers” depending on your version of Windows. The closest one to you will be set as your “default” printer. The default printer is the first one to come up when you click print.  Simply right click on the one you want and click “Set as default”.

I'm assuming you are already talking to IT for on the downed printer but if you have any questions or problems just let us know.

Author Info: Beatitudes Campus Verified Administrator
At the foundation of Beatitudes Campus is the of Church of the Beatitudes pastors and congregation members to create a better alternative for older adults than the nursing homes of the early 1960s. The type of community they imagined was the first of its kind in Arizona. Beatitudes Campus is proud to continue the legacy of our founders, by being a leader in the field of aging services for over 50 years.

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