Installing The Printer Port For Network Printers; Introduction; Installing A Standard Tcp/Ip Printer Port Under; Windows Xp/2000 - Gigaset SX553 WLAN dsl First Steps

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Installing the printer port for network printers

Your Gigaset SX553 WLAN dsl is equipped with a USB port that you can use, for exam-

ple, to connect a printer for use as the network printer.

A network printer is a printer on which you can print your documents without it being

connected to your PC, e.g. to LPT1, the parallel interface. The advantage of this is that

you only need this printer once in your network. All PCs for which it is released can

access it and work with it.

Note:

For multifunction devices (combination of printer, copier or fax) only the printer func-

tionality is supported.

In most cases a printer of this type is connected to another PC in the network. This does

indeed offer the advantage referred to above, but it has serious disadvantages:

The printer can only be used by others if the PC to which it is connected is switched

on.

The print job you send to the PC on which the printer depends reduces the perform-

ance (resources) of this PC.

If you use the USB port on the Gigaset SX553 WLAN dsl for your printer, you have all the

advantages of a network printer without the disadvantages referred to above:

The network, and consequently also the printer, is always ready (the Gigaset SX553

WLAN dsl and the printer itself must be switched on, of course).

As it is connected to the USB printer port on your Gigaset SX553 WLAN dsl it does

not detract from the performance of any other PC in the network.

To facilitate this option you must first set up a printer port on each PC that is to use the

network printer. A printer port is an interface on the PC that forwards the print job to an

IP address within the network.

Once you have set up this port you must install the printer driver.

You can use the standard TCP/IP port driver present in this operating system. Make sure

that the Gigaset SX553 WLAN dsl is connected and can be reached in the network.

A printer need not be connected to the USB port on your Gigaset SX553 WLAN dsl at

this point. The following illustrations show installation on Windows XP. Installation on

Windows 2000 is essentially the same.

Click Start and in the window that opens, click Printers and Faxes.

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