Printing from Windows

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Printing from Windows is only supported with IPP. Windows/Samba printer shares are no longer available. Unfortuanatly this is not as smooth as in Linux or MacOS.

This means installing printers is a bit more complicated. Automatic downloading of drivers is not supported. Our preconfigured Windows 10 VMs comes with preinstalled central printers. Personal printers are handled in a different manner.

Download driver archive

Download a zip archive for the central printers hier: [1]. Access is restricted to the campus LAN.

Installing the drivers

  1. Unzip the downloaded file.
  2. Open the "Printer & Scanner" management page from the system settings.
  3. Click on Add printer. Due to network design the printers will not be found automatically. Click on "The printer is not listed".
  4. Choose the "Select shared printer by name". The URL is http://print-itp:631/printers/PRINTERNAME. Where PRINTERNAME is one of our central printer: psBlack1/2, psColor1/2, km1/2.
  5. Then you have to choose a driver. Click on "Datenträger"
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