How To / Setting Up Your Printer on a Network

For Windows 2000 Users

Setting up your printer as a shared printer
Accessing the printer through a network

This section tells you how to set up your printer so that other computers on the network can use it.

Note:

This section is written for small network users only. If you are on a large network and would like to share your printer, consult your network administrator.

First, you need to set up the printer as a shared printer on the computer to which the printer is connected. Then, you must add the printer to each computer that will access it through the network.

Setting up your printer as a shared printer

To share a printer with other computers on a network, follow the steps below to configure the computer to which the printer is connected.

Click Start, point to Settings, and click Printers.

Right-click the icon for your printer, then click Sharing.

Select Shared as, then type a name for the shared printer.

Note:

Do not use spaces or hyphens in the printer name.

If you want Windows 2000 to automatically download printer drivers to computers that are not running Windows 2000, click Additional Drivers and select the environment and the operating system for the other computers. Click OK to install the additional drivers.

Click OK, or click Close if you installed additional drivers.

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Accessing the printer through a network

To use your printer from other computers on a network, you must first add the printer to each computer that will access it. Follow the steps below.

Note:

Your printer must be set up as a shared resource on the computer to which it is directly connected before you can access it from another computer. For instructions, see Setting up your printer as a shared printer.

Click Start, point to Settings, and click Printers.

Double-click the Add Printer icon. The Add Printer Wizard opens.

Click Next.

Select Network printer, then click Next.

On the next screen, click Next.

Double-click the icon of the computer that is directly connected to the printer. Then, click the icon for the appropriate printer.

Click Next and follow the on-screen instructions.

Note:

Depending on the operating system and the configuration of the computer to which the printer is connected, the Add Printer Wizard may prompt you to install the printer driver from the printer software CD-ROM. In this case, click the Have Disk button and follow the on-screen instructions.

To monitor the status of a shared printer, you must install EPSON Status Monitor 3 on each computer that will access the printer. See Installing EPSON Status Monitor 3 for instructions.

Installing EPSON Status Monitor 3

To monitor the status of a printer accessed through a network, you must install EPSON Status Monitor 3 on each computer that will access the printer. Follow the steps below.

Insert the printer software CD in the CD-ROM drive. If the Installer dialog box does not appear, double-click EPsetup.exe in the CD-ROM.

Select Install EPSON Status Monitor 3, and click .

Follow the on-screen instructions.

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