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Getting Started
Setting up a printer
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You can connect a USB-compatible printer to your computer
through the USB ports. To determine if the printer is USB-
compatible, check its documentation.
To achieve the connection, you need a suitable USB cable,
which may come with your printer. You can purchase one
from a computer or electronics store.
To connect a USB printer:
1
Plug the USB connector into one of the USB ports on
your computer
2
Plug the printer’s power cable into a live AC outlet.
To connect a parallel printer:
Connecting the parallel printer cable while the computer is on
may damage the printer, the computer, or both.
1
Connect the printer cable to the printer and to the
computer’s parallel port.
Identifying the ends of a parallel printer cable
2
Plug the printer’s power cable into a live AC outlet.
See your printer documentation for additional configuration
steps, or see “Setting up a printer,” below.
Setting up a printer
If you started your computer with a printer connected and
turned on, it may have been detected automatically (Plug and
Play). If this is not the case, then you must install the printer
driver for the model of printer that is connected to your
computer. You install the printer driver either by following
To the computer
To the printer
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