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USB PRINTER
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6.3.2 Installing Your Printer on Windows XP
Requirements
Your computer must be connected to the MediaAccess Gateway. For more information, see “2.3 Connecting Your Network
Devices to the MediaAccess Gateway” on page 20.
Your printer has not yet been installed on your computer
If the printer is not yet installed on the computer, proceed as follows:
1 On the Windows Start menu, click (Settings>) Printers and Faxes.
2 Click (File >) Add a printer. The Add Printer Wizard appears. Click Next to continue.
3 Select Local printer attached to this computer and click Next to confirm.
4 Select Create a new port and choose Standard TCP/IP Port from the drop-down list. Click Next to confirm.
5 The Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard appears. Click Next to continue.
6 In the field Printer Name or IP address, type 192.168.1.253. The Port Name is arbitrary. Click Next to confirm.
7 Select Custom and click Settings. The Configure Standard TCP/IP Port Monitor appears.
Select LPR as Protocol.
In the section LPR Settings, fill in the field Queue Name with the name that you have configured in the MediaAccess
Gateway and (for the typical configuration in Configuring The Printer Sharing Service on Your MediaAccess Gateway
the name is myprinter) select the LPR Byte Counting Enabled option.
8 Confirm with OK. The Configure Standard TCP/IP Port Monitor closes.
9 Click Next and Finish. The Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard closes.
10 In the Add Printer Wizard, select the correct printer driver and confirm with Next.
11 Enter the Printer name and select whether or not you want to use this printer as default printer. Click Next to confirm.
(Optionally) When asked if printer sharing via your computer should be enabled, select Do not share this printer and
click Next to confirm.
12 The wizard prompts you to print a test page. Select Ye s or No and click Next when finished.
13 Click Finish to complete the installation. The printer is now installed on your computer.
Your printer has already been installed on your computer
If the printer was already previously installed on the computer, you only have to create a new printer port:
1 On the Windows Start menu, click (Settings>) Printers and Faxes.
2 Right-click the printer to be shared, select Properties and go to the Ports tab.
3 Click on Add Port..., select Standard TCP/IP port and click on New Port.... The Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port
Wizard appears. Click Next to continue.
4 In the field Printer Name or IP address, type 192.168.1.253. The Port Name is arbitrary. Click Next to confirm.
5 Select Custom and click Settings. The Configure Standard TCP/IP Port Monitor appears:
Select LPR as Protocol.
In the section LPR Settings, fill in the field Queue Name with the name that you have configured in the MediaAccess
Gateway (for the typical configuration in Configuring The Printer Sharing Service on Your MediaAccess Gateway the
name is myprinter) and select the LPR Byte Counting Enabled option.
6 Confirm these settings with OK. The Configure Standard TCP/IP Port Monitor closes.
7 Click Next and Finish. The Add Standard TCP/IP Printer Port Wizard closes. The new printer port for the printer is
now created and selected for this printer.
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