How to Install a Printer

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In this article I will explain how to install a printer quickly and easily so that you don't have to go through too many unnecessary steps. So let's start:

The essential points are:

Connect the printer to the computer

install the management software and have the device recognized by the system
if we are working with an ink printer, we also need to install the ink cartridges

Step 1: First you need to check if we have the connection cable, very often it is delivered with the printer, otherwise, we have to buy it ourselves.
There are mainly two connection systems:

·         USB cable
·         parallel port

Now we find almost all printers with USB connection and in any case the parallel port is located next to the USB input.

Depending on the type of connection, the Printer installation steps, which in any case are roughly the same, vary slightly in the sequence of the first connection to the PC…

USB printer:

1. When prompted, connect the printer to the power supply via the power cable. power supply
2. Install the software contained in the CDROM enclosed with the printer package, or download it from the manufacturer's website first…
3. Connect the USB cable to the printer and then to the computer
4. Turn on the printer using the ON / OFF button sometimes called POWER ... an indicator light should come on
Having been requested by the system, the installation is now complete.

PARALLEL port printer (LPT1):

1. When prompted, connect the printer to the power supply through the power cable
2. Connect the USB cable to the printer and then to the computer
3. Turn on the printer using the ON / OFF button sometimes called POWER … An indicator light should come on
4. Install the software contained in the CDROM enclosed with the printer package, or download it first from the manufacturer's website…

As you can see, the main difference lies in the fact that for USB peripherals we must first install the software with the device disconnected, and only then connect it to the PC which will thus already have all the drivers necessary to recognize it.

in the case of the LPT1 printer we may not have real software to install but simply only the drivers ... in this case the drivers will be supplied to the system during the installation procedure. In the meantime, let's see the difference of the USB or PARALLEL connection cables

Parallel cable
Cable USB cable
First plane of a USB cable ...

This is another image representing the USB connection cable more closely ... although the coupling is different, it is a USB cable ... the largest part in a parallelepiped (rectangle) is the classic USB socket.

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