This article has been recently edited to move some of the original content to this new article. For a user to add a printer interactively for just their own use, see this original article. To add a printer to a computer so all users get the printer, or for multiple printers at once, keep reading.
But on Windows, this step vanishes, because the Windows Server print server will supply the correct printer driver and default configuration when you add the printer in the next step.
In step 4 below, you can access the settings of the printer driver. If several different people log in independently to use a computer, it may be more efficient to define the printer once for all users of this computer. This is done by entering a special command in a Command Prompt window, run with elevated privileges "as Administrator".
Choose the Start button and start to type the word "comman". When you see Command Prompt at the top of the match list, right-click it and choose "Run As Administrator". If you are asked for elevated Administrator-level approval for this action, answer Yes. If you are asked for Administrator-level credentials username and password for this action, enter them, probably using your admin account.
Once you have successfully opened an elevated Command Prompt window, it will look something like this:. The case upper or lower of what you type may or may not matter, so follow the examples shown below. First, you must enter three printui commands to delete any existing printer definitions that might conflict with the one you are about to add; ignore any popup error messages after each command:.
I still need to see the end results of what I did, as I never had a need in the past to deploy to groups instead of a particular OU. I have been assured by others more familiar that this is sort of a normal practice. If I understand this right - you have many users who float from PC to PC, and they need to use the most or one of the two or three most convenient printers for the PC that they've logged in to.
The printers follow the PC, not the user. If you have your computers arranged in OUs by physical location, you can attach the GPO to OUs the normal way; you can also create the connections and use item-level targeting to, say, create one group of printers for a particular IP address or range, and another group for another address or range, etc.
Write the GPO, apply it, and tell users to reboot their systems, and the connections should appear. Brian Scheele You can use the local policy on the computer to add the printers rather than a domain policy but you may just want to use printui. I did not write the article below but have passed along similar instructions since the creation of this method released in Windows I normally do not use rundll32 for this.
I call printui. Enable the policy to add the per machine connections to the systems. The spooler reads this key on user log on and if it is possible, will add the connection to the machine sharing the printer. Let me know if you want to use the local policies. This works well for organizations which do not want to use domain policies.
I know this is an old post, but this is where you have two options. If you have people move around a bunch in a single department in a single building you want to deploy through group policy but do it via print management. This is the easiest way to deploy printers at the System level and you can deploy printers to different OU's of computers. This also works with the sites option if you have your sites setup properly. If you do this then you also want the option Remove this item when it is no longer applied selected so it removes the printers if they go to another location primary for laptops.
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Could not find a method using Print Management. Earn Credits. OK, lets say you have a networked printer that you want to install for all users on a PC.
Step 3: Now whenever a user logs on to that machine they will automatically have that printer installed. Thai Pepper. ThomasTrain Jan 29, at pm.
Make sure the server name and share name are exactly correct. JeffFurbs Mar 6, at pm. JoeCWF Aug 15, at am. What about using spaces in the print queue i. Brendan Aug 19, at pm. ThomasTrain Aug 20, at am. Earl Dec 17, at pm.
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