Printing to University Printers
It is possible to print to University networked printers from all versions of Windows 7 apart from Windows 7 Starter which is usually found on netbooks.
Staff Network Printing
First establish which installation of Windows 7 you are running, see the following link for details:
Which version of Windows 7 am I running?
If you are running Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate see the instructions in the link below:
Printing from Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise or Ultimate
If you are running Windows 7 Home Basic or Home Premium try following the instructions below.
- Use the 'Add A Printer' option found in Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> View Devices and Printers.
- Click Add a Network, Wireless or Bluetooth printer
- Click 'Stop' to cancel the automatic searching of printers.
- Click 'The printer that I want is not listed'
- Click 'Select a shared printer by name' and enter the following:
http://shefuniprt.shef.ac.uk/ipp/printername
Where printername is the name of the printer eg for cics-lj4200-285
http://shefuniprt/ipp/cics-lj4200-285 - Click 'Next'
- Choose the correct printer driver using the option you are shown. For on campus it will mostly like be a HP or Sharp driver. Click 'Ok'
- Click 'Next'
- Click 'Finish'
Student Network Printing – to the Prepay system
Instructions to print to student printers are available from the link below.