local printer

Installing a local printer on Windows 11 should be a five‑minute task—but real life often adds a twist or two. This feature walks you through a complete, practical setup: from powering on and plugging in to advanced port fixes, Print Spooler recovery, and safe driver practices. It consolidates...

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Microsoft’s Windows web app has become an increasingly vital linchpin in the modern workplace, serving as the central access point to a suite of powerful services—Windows 365 Cloud PCs, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Microsoft Dev Box, among others. Since its general availability in mid-2024, users...

I have win10, win7 and winXP on our home LAN. I have XP because I have a printer that needs XP: no drivers available for any other brand of Windows: a Laserjet 3150. So the printer hangs off that PC as a local printer. Now I think if I want to access it across the network from these other...

We have 4 2012r2 terminal servers in a farm and users are having random issues with pdf readers not printing, or saying no printers installed (printers are loaded as local printers on each server) Sometimes one reader will work and another wont and this morning opening a pdf in any reader would...

Hi All! Having a hard time finding answers to this problem. after changing permissions on a printer from the "everone group" being able to print, to the "everyone group" having no privileges. I get a access denied error when trying to change properties on that printer. I'm usng my Admin login...

I have a working local Laserprinter under 64bit Win7. Through LAN another Win7 computer is connected. The remote computer can access local shared folders successfully. But it cannot access the local laser printer (connected through USB). How can I share the local printer to other computers...

Hello all, I was hoping someone here could help me with the default settings on a new Window 7 install. For some reason the default region is set to the UK instead of the US. This is causing problems with the keyboard setup and date format. Is there a way to change the default region for all...

I have a shared network printer (Samsung ML-2571n) connected to a Windows XP desktop computer and am trying to use my home wireless network to connect to it from my laptop. When I try to find the computer via its name, I get a DNS error. However, I can browse it by bypassing DNS using its IP...

I have been trying to install an HP 1300 printer on my network at work and cannot seem to get the driver to install. I have followed the advice at: Laserjet 1300 Driver for Windows 7 64 Bits - HP Support Forum and was able to get the printer to work if it is directly attached to my computer...

Ok, so I used the W7 Bata, RC and now I've installed W7 Ultimate. In the previous two versions, I was able to install and run my local and networked printers. I've now installed W7 Ult and my printers install without any issues, they just don't print. I don't get an error. The print job...

This was dug up from the folks over at Neowin.net... Link Removed due to 404 Error I like the bi directional audio among others...if they could work on local printing. I've set it up before but its kind of a pain.

Hi Mods . People seem to be having problems with sharing / networking printers all over the place so here's a general method that work 99% of the time to connect almost any mix of OS'es (Windows) and printers including "Network" printers -- perhaps you can make this a sticky. First part -...