Vista printer on network

Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Pictures helped. Didn't match my screen. Choose the proper Location and leave Features and Advanced tabs blank. Click Find Now. All the printers in this location will be listed, rather than 20 items.

That is a good idea to manage shared printers in a domain. Hope it helps, Mike! Nice day! Microsoft Online Community Support. Sorry I have to add some information to my reply! The list for network printers is controllable via group policy object editor. Please use the following steps:. Choose to Add Printer in the left sidebar. A dialog box will appear. You can choose to add a network Printer. Then ask the computer to find it.

If it does find it your done. When the computer does not find your network printer manually type it in yourself. Advantages and disadvantages if you add a network printer? Advantages: You only need one printer for your entire network. You save money on office equipment. You save space. You can turn an old printer into a network printer. Disadvantages: If another user is printing hundreds of pages on the network printer you will have to wait for them to finish printing.

The computer the network printer is attached to must be on for the printer to function. On the other hand if you have a true network printer then you only need the printer to be powered on the use network printing. If another user is printing hundreds of pages on the network printer you will have to wait for them to finish printing. Thread starter Huserx Start date Apr 11, Overclockers is supported by our readers. When you click a link to make a purchase, we may earn a commission.

Learn More. Joined Aug 28, My Network PC with printer, xp pro. I cannot get the network printer to work with vista. I have downloaded the most current xp drivers to the host pc. I have downloaded the 64 bit vista drivers to the vista machine. I can install it from the drivers, or from add a printer. Attempts to print fail, with a communication error d.