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Printing from a Windows PCLast revision March 10, 2008 With the exception of a few printers in the ERE department that are controlled by their servers, and the special printers for the Mitchell A65 and Mitchell A59 "GRID" computer clusters, all general-access printers in the School of Earth Sciences are directly connected to the computer network and will accept print jobs directly from your computer. Generally, it is best to create the print queue on your PC ("add a printer") using the installation CD or program provided by the printer manufacturer. Be aware that most of the printers in the School are HP printers, and HP printers will not show up when you browse for printers in the normal Windows Add Printer Wizard. That only looks for "Windows Print Shares", that is, printers attached to particular computers that are sharing them on the network with Microsoft's specific print sharing protocol. HP networked printers use a different access protocol on a different TCP port. To connect your PC to a networked HP printer, you must install an HP driver. You can download and install the HP Universal Print Driver for Windows for all modern HP printers - install it once and access all current models. To save disk space, or for older models not supported by this new universal driver, download and use HP's Network Printer Wizard to install specific drivers for particular printer models. You can request that our CRC deskstop support consultants install printer drivers for you on any Stanford-owned computer. Fill out the request form at:
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