Greetings. I'm Professor Kay and in this short video presentation, we're going to see how we go about setting up a network printer on server 2016. So from the desktop, find your start button, do a right click, and from the context menu, open up your control panel. Once you have your control panel opened up, go ahead and find Devices and Printers and go ahead and open that. Next we want to go ahead and click on the Add Printer. This is going to begin the add a printer wizard.

Go ahead and click on the printer that I want isn't listed. We're going to create a fake printer but it makes no difference because the procedure for a real printer would be exactly the same. So go down here, find the radio button that says Add a printer using a TCP IP address or hostname. Click that radio button and then click Next. On this next screen unless you actually have a printer, make sure you uncheck this box to query the printer and automatically selected reiver for us, we're going to go ahead and just type in a fake IP address for this new network printer. Once you have your IP address typed in, this is the IP address that would be assigned to the network card on that printer.

Go ahead and click Next. Now it's going to take a little while for it to figure out that it can't find a printer and when it does, we'll move on from there. On this next screen, you have to choose the type of network card that is present on the printer. Now, in most cases, your printer may not be listed in here and that's fine because the default selection for you the generic network card most the time works just fine. Go ahead and click Next. For network printers, I like to use HP so let's scroll on down find hp.

Find yourself a network printer that you like to use. I like the 4000 series. So we can select a 4515 PCL six class driver This is a laser jet HP color, go ahead and select that. say next. Now the printer name itself on this screen is not nearly as important as the share name that you're going to create. So we can go ahead and leave this as the default.

Click Next. So now the printer is actually installed, we can create a share name. Now if you don't want to share this printer, that's fine. Go ahead and select that option. But if we're going to share this printer on the network, we want to have some type of naming convention that we can use. Depending on how many printers you have on your network, you might want to use the names of Disney characters.

Or if you live in Arizona, you might want to use the names of desert animals. Depends on what your naming convention is, but you should have a naming convention that makes sense to you. And when you see the printer, you know two things. One, what the printer is and where it's located. I'll call this one coyote and the printer is currently present on the first floor inside the print center. Now if I have printers on additional floors, I might use Disney characters.

Or I might use other names for the third and the fourth floor. If that's the case, doing click Next. On this next page, you have the option to set this as a default printer for the server. And if you need to print a test page, we don't need to print a test page because it's not a real printer. And we can go ahead and say finish, we now see that the printer is present. And if we right click on it, we can go to Printer Properties.

And all the things that we set up when we were installing the printer we can we can confirm those has been present. You see the share name, we can also list this item or not up inside of active directory. Now if this was the CEOs, personal network printer, you may not want individuals to be able to see it in Active Directory. So you would do one of two things you would uncheck this box and then underneath security, he would take out the everyone group and just start Sign the CEO or perhaps the Secretary to have access to the printer. So in this short video presentation, you saw how easy it was to add a network printer to your server 2016