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The information in this topic applies to adding a new printer under Windows 2000/XP. The screen shots used in the topic were taken from Windows XP.
To install a new printer, open Printers and Faxes folder by clicking Start > Printers and Faxes. The Start button is in the lower left corner as shown in the following screen shot:
After selecting Printers and Faxes, the Printers and Faxes folder will open. Click Add a printer in the Printer Tasks group or click File > Add Printer to start the Add Printer Wizard.
The Welcome page of the Add Printer Wizard is shown below. To begin installing your printer, click Next.
The first thing you must specify about you printer is how it is attached to you computer. You must select whether you printer attached directly to your computer (local printer) or whether you will be accessing it over a network connection (network printer). We will assume that it is a local printer.
In addition, we don't want Windows to search for the printer as we will be specifying the driver that we want to use. Make sure Automatically detect and install my Plug and Play printer is not checked. Click Next to continue.
Because we chose to not to automatically detect the printer we have to select what port the printer is connected to on the PC. Choose LPT1 unless you are absolutely sure that you are using one of the other ports that are listed. Click Next to continue.
Now we have to select the manufacturer and model of printer we want to install. We are going to install an Okidata ML320 Turbo printer by using the device driver files that where originally downloaded from the Internet. In order to do this we click Have Disk.
After clicking Have Disk the Install From Disk dialog will be displayed. The default location for driver files is assume to be drive A: (the floppy drive). However, the files we want are located on drive C: in the folder \OKIML3201. You can type c:\okiml3201 at the prompt and click OK or click the Browse button.
If you click Browse, the Locate File dialog will open. Click the OKIML3201 folder once and the click Open or press the Enter key.
Once the correct folder name is in the Copy manufacturer's file from prompt, click OK or press the Enter key.
The only model that should be listed is OKIDATA ML320/1 TURBO. This driver is suitable for both the ML 320 and 321 models. Make sure that the OKIDATA ML320/1 TURBO item is selected and click Next to continue.
If you are adding a printer that is exactly the same as an existing printer, you will be prompted to keep or replace the existing driver. We select recommend keeping the existing driver. Click Next to continue.
You will be given an opportunity to assign a Name to your printer. When you have input your printer's name, click Next to continue.
You will need to install separate printers for printing tickets and reports even though you may be using the same physical printer to print both. For this reason, we suggest you change the default name to something meaningful that identifies the printers purpose. For example:
The Report Printer should be the default printer. |
If your printer is connected to the computer and is powered up, select Yes and click Next to send a test page to the print spooler. Make sure that there is paper in the printer!
The last step is to click the Finish button to complete the Wizard.
Once the test page has been sent to the print spooler, the test page should start to print and the following dialog will be displayed:
Click OK to complete the Add Printer process.