{"id":1237,"date":"2018-06-07T12:04:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T11:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/?p=1237"},"modified":"2018-06-07T12:04:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T11:04:23","slug":"photocopiers-adding-a-copier-as-a-printer-on-windows-10-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/?p=1237","title":{"rendered":"Photocopiers &#8211; adding a copier as a printer on Windows 10 laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These instructions are for University provisioned Windows 10 laptops.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that University Common Desktop PCs (both Windows 7 and 10) will automatically add the photocopiers as a printer called &#8216;IGM Copier&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>If you are using a private\/personal laptop (Windows 7, Windows 10, Apple, or Linux), please come and see us in room B245, 2nd floor, BioMedicine West building, for further advice.<\/p>\n<p>Ensure that you have an internet connection<br \/>\nClick on Windows logo<br \/>\nClick settings icon (cog)<br \/>\nClick Devices<br \/>\nClick Printers &amp; Scanners<br \/>\nClick +Add a printer<br \/>\nWait, while Windows lists every possible printer it can see. This is not helpful, in this case!<br \/>\nScroll down the list and click &#8216;The printer that I want isn&#8217;t listed&#8217;<br \/>\nClick &#8216;Select a shared printer by name&#8217;<br \/>\nIn the box underneath, carefully type \\\\medson\\<br \/>\nWhen you press that final \\ key, a drop-down menu will appear. Scroll down the list and choose &#8216;IGM Copier&#8217;<br \/>\nThe address\/name of printer should now read as \\\\medson\\IGM Copier<br \/>\nClick Next<br \/>\nWait, while Windows configures the printer<br \/>\nClick Next<br \/>\nClick Finish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These instructions are for University provisioned Windows 10 laptops. Please note that University Common Desktop PCs (both Windows 7 and 10) will automatically add the photocopiers as a printer called &#8216;IGM Copier&#8217;. If you are using a private\/personal laptop (Windows 7, Windows 10, Apple, or Linux), please come and see us in room B245, 2nd <a href='https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/?p=1237' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,118,106],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-laptops","tag-printing","tag-windows-10","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/igmit\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}