If your network-capable printer is not automatically detected by Windows, you volition need to ready it up manually. This will involve going to your printer menu, configuring a TCP/IP a port, and installing the drivers. Follow the steps below to add together a network printer in Windows 10.

  1. Open the Windows Beginning bill of fare. This is the button in the bottom left corner of your screen that is shaped similar the Windows logo.

  2. So click to Settings. This is the gear-shaped icon simply higher up the power button in the Start menu.

  3. Then click on Devices.

  4. Next, select Printers & Scanners. Yous can discover this in the left sidebar.

  5. Then click Add a Printer.

    Note: One time Windows detects your printer, all you have to do is follow the on-screen instructions for setting it upwards. If this is the case, you lot tin stop at this point. Withal, if Windows does non machine-detect your printer, go on to the side by side footstep.

  6. Click "The printer that I want isn't listed." Once you select this, the "Add Printer" screen volition pop upwardly.

  7. Choose "Add together a local printer or network printer with manual settings," and click adjacent.

  8. Click on "Create a New Port" and select Standard TCP/IP from the driblet-downward box.

  9. Type in your printer's IP address or URL (east.g. printer-one.schoolhouse.edu) and click next. At this point, your computer will endeavour to detect the TCP/IP port. This might take some fourth dimension.

  10. Select the appropriate device type. Use one of the following methods to identify/install the appropriate printer driver:

    • In the driblet-downwardly menu for Standard Device Type, select the device blazon that corresponds with your printer brand. For case, if you lot have a Canon printer, choose either Catechism Network Printer or Canon Network Printing Device. Windows will then notice the driver model. Y'all will discover that once it detects the driver, your printer volition be added to the listing of devices in the Printer & Scanners menu.

    • Install the print commuter. Click on the box that says Have Disk. Y'all will be instructed to install the driver from the manufacturer'southward installation disk (or a download of the commuter) and copy information technology from where the driver is located.

  11. Set up optional preferences. Type a printer proper noun if you lot want to. Otherwise, click Next. In the next window, yous could also ready prepare printer sharing if you like (generally you should not do this). One time done, click on Next.

  12. Print a test page. You volition get a message that you lot take successfully set the printer. From here, you can print a test page or click on Cease.