Adding Printers In Windows - Axis 5550 User Manual

Section 4
Overview of
Installation Methods
Client/Server Network
Peer-to-Peer Network
AXIS 5500 / AXIS 5550 User's Manual

Adding Printers in Windows

This section describes how to add network printers to a computer in
Windows. Refer to the table below to determine the most appropriate
installation method according to your computer environment:
Windows
Protocol
Platform
Windows
TCP/IP (LPR)
2000, XP, 2003
Windows
NetBIOS/NetBEUI
2000
TCP/IP
Windows
NT
NetBIOS/NetBEUI
TCP/IP (LPR)
Windows
98/Me
NetBIOS/NetBEUI
If you intend to use the print server in a multi-protocol environment,
refer to the chapters pertaining to the respective operating systems in this
manual.
For client/server printing, each computer sends print jobs through a
network server computer.
The printer must first be installed on the server computer (from the Add
Printer Wizard, AXIS Print Monitor) and then shared on the network,
which makes it a network printer. It will then appear as a Network Printer
(in Windows Add Printer Wizard and in AXIS Print Monitor) on the client
computers. Each client computer must install the appropriate printer
drivers in order to print properly.
For Windows 98 and Me, it is only necessary to install AXIS Print Monitor on a server for
client/server printing.
In Peer-to-Peer networks, each computer prints directly to the network
printer. The network printer appears as a Local Printer (in Windows Add
Printer Wizard and in AXIS Print Monitor), and needs to be added to each
Adding Printers in Windows
Method See...
"Adding Printers in Windows 2000 / XP /
AXIS AddPrinter
2003 using AXIS AddPrinter Wizard" on
Wizard
page 24
"Adding Printers in Windows 2000 / XP /
Windows
2003 using Windows Add Printer Wiz-
Add Printer Wizard
ard" on page 26
"Adding Printers in Windows 2000 / XP /
Microsoft
2003 using the Microsoft LPR Monitor"
LPR Monitor
on page 31
Adding NetBIOS/NetBEUI Printers in
AXIS Print Monitor
Windows 2000 using AXIS Print Moni-
software
tor, on page 34
"Adding Printers in Windows NT using
the Microsoft LPR Monitor" on page 29
Windows Add Printer
"Adding Printers over NetBIOS/NetBEUI
Wizard
in Windows NT using AXIS Print Moni-
tor" on page 35
"Adding Printers in Windows 98 and Me
over TCP/IP using AXIS Print Monitor" on
page 36
AXIS Print Monitor
software
"Adding Printers in Windows 98 and Me
over NetBIOS/NetBEUI using AXIS Print
Monitor" on page 37
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