Quarrelling printer manufacturers couldn’t agree on how printers should be installed. As a result, you install your printer in Windows 10 in one of two ways:
- Some printer manufacturers say simply to plug in your printer by pushing its rectangular-shaped connector into a little rectangular-shaped USB port on your PC. Windows automatically notices, recognizes, and embraces your new printer. Stock your printer with any needed ink cartridges, toner, or paper, and you’re done.
- Other manufacturers take an uglier approach, saying you must install their bundled software before plugging in your printer. And if you don’t install the software first, the printer may not work correctly.
Unfortunately, the only way to know how your printer should be installed is to check the printer’s manual. (Sometimes this information appears on a colorful, one-page Quick Installation sheet packed in the printer’s box.)
If your printer lacks installation software, install the cartridges, add paper to the tray, and follow these instructions to put it to work:
- With Windows up and running, plug your printer into your PC and turn on the printer.Windows may send a message saying that your printer is installed successfully, but follow the next step to test it.
- Load the Control Panel.Right-click the Start button and choose Control Panel from the pop-up menu.
- From the Hardware and Sound category, click the View Devices and Printers link.The Control Panel displays its categories of devices, including your printer if you’re lucky. If you spot your USB printer listed by its model or brand name, right-click its icon, choose Properties, and click the Print Test Page button. If it prints correctly, you’re finished. Congratulations.Test page didn‘t work? Check that all the packaging is removed from inside your printer and that it has ink cartridges. If it still doesn’t print, your printer is probably defective. Contact the store where you bought it and ask who to contact for assistance.To print your documents to a file that you can e-mail to nearly anybody, choose Print As a PDF. That saves your printed, formatted file as a PDF file, a format that’s accessible with nearly every type of computer, smartphone, or tablet. (If somebody can’t read it, tell them to download Adobe Reader.)
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That’s it. If you’re like most people, your printer will work like a charm.
If you have two or more printers attached to your computer, right-click the icon of your most oft-used printer and choose Set As Default Printer from the pop-up menu. Windows then prints to that printer automatically unless you tell it otherwise.
- To remove a printer you no longer use, right-click its name in Step 3 and then choose Delete from the pop-up menu. That printer’s name no longer appears as an option when you try to print from a program. If Windows asks to uninstall the printer’s drivers and software, click Yes — unless you think you may install that printer again sometime.
- You can change printer options from within many programs. Choose File in a program’s menu bar (you may need to press Alt to see the menu bar) and then choose Print Setup or choose Print. The window that appears lets you change things such as paper sizes, fonts, and types of graphics.
- To share a printer quickly over a network, create a Homegroup. Your printer immediately shows up as an installation option for all the computers on your network.
- If your printer’s software confuses you, try clicking the Help buttons in its dialog boxes. Many buttons are customized for your particular printer model, and they offer advice not found in Windows.
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When installing a printer, Windows 10 will assign the default name to it. Its default name is usually defined by the vendor and includes its manufacturer name and model. If you are not happy with the default name of your printer, here are a number of methods you can use to rename it.
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To rename a printer, you must be signed in with an administrative account. You can use either the Control Panel, Settings, or PowerShell. Let's review these methods.
We will start with Settings. Settings is a Universal app bundled with Windows 10. It is created to replace the classic Control Panel for both touch screen users and mouse and keyboard Desktop users. It consists of several pages which bring new options to configure Windows 10 along with some older options inherited from the classic Control Panel. In every release, Windows 10 is getting more and more classic options converted to a modern page in the Settings app. At some point, Microsoft might remove the classic Control Panel completely.
To rename a printer in Windows 10, do the following.
- Open the Settings app.
- Go to Devices -> Printers & scanners.
- On the right, click on the printer you want to rename and then click on the Manage button.
- On the next page, click on the Printer properties link.
- In the Printer Properties dialog, type the new name on the General tab.
- Click on Apply, then click OK.
You just renamed the printer.
Note: If you have the Change Properties button on the General tab of the Printer properties dialog, click on it. This will open an extra dialog, where you will be able to rename the printer. See the following screenshot.
If you are trying to rename a shared printer, you will be prompted to confirm the operation. Renaming a shared printer will break all existing connections to it, so other users on the network won't be able to access it any more until they re-add it to their Printers folder.
Please keep this in mind.
Rename a printer with the Control Panel
- Open the classic Control Panel app.
- Go to Control PanelHardware and SoundDevices and Printers.
- Right-click on the printer you want to rename, and select Printer properties from the context menu.
- In the Printer Properties dialog, type the new name on the General tab.
- Click on Apply, then click OK.
- See notes related to the Settings app above.
Rename a printer using PowerShell
- Open PowerShell as Administrator. Tip: You can add 'Open PowerShell As Administrator' context menu.
- Type or copy-paste the following command:The command will print a table with your printers and their sharing status.
- Type the following command:
Rename-Printer -Name 'Your current printer name' -NewName 'New printer name'
. - Your printer is now renamed.
That's it.
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First I am going to assume your printers are on some sort of Windows Print Server. (Big assumption I know, but lack of information leaves me to guess)
If this is correct, All you need to do is bring of the list of printers on the server, R-click and rename the printer. Then when searching through AD for a printer, that is the name shown, no matter the Share Name or the Actual Name on the printer.
The unfortunate side is that this will not rename the printer on clients already mapped to this printer, You will need a script to do this, but they will (at least in my test) continue to print as normal.
If you need to rename on all clients, I probably have or can give you a vbs login script that can set you in the right direction to do that.
This question is similar to How do you rename a printer device in Windows 7 64 bit, except the answers there do not work, and I'll provide more information.
This is a home network, not a domain. I have set up a Brother HL-5170DN. It is a network printer connected directly to an Ethernet hub. I can connect to it with Windows 7, but on Windows 7 it defaults to the name 'binary_p1 on Brn37415f', which isn't very useful. And I cannot seem to change the name.
I have it working with several Windows XP and Vista machines, and I can change the name on those machines.
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On Windows 7 Printer properties:
- I can see the 'binary_p1' name on the General tab. I can select the text, but I cannot change it. The field is not grayed out, but I cannot type anything into it.
- On the Ports tab, all of the controls are grayed out (disabled). The selected Port is called 'Brn_37415fbinary_p1', and it's described as 'Client Side Rendering Provider' and the printer field says 'binary_p1'.
- On the Security tab, I can see that my account has 'Manage this printer' permissions.
If I choose Printer Server Properties, I can select the port and click Configure Port, but I get a dialog that says, 'An error occurred during port configuration. This option is not supported.'
I have found many forums with people asking the same question without getting an answer.
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Here's the way to do this on Windows 7 and 8.1 for non-IP based printers:
- Add a printer
- Add a local printer (not network)
- Create a new port (local port, not TCP/IP)
- Fill in portname (serverprinter syntax)
Follow the rest of the steps (you likely will have to manually pick the printer driver, you can find this easily if you already mapped the network printer by viewing its properties).
This will let you do this.
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This worked for me:
- Stop the print service
net stop spooler
- locate the printer in the registry under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPrintPrinters$device
Network printers usually have a key which starts with to commas, like,http://example.com:555,nameofprinter
- Be
$new
the desired name of the printer. Change:
value of 'Name' in$device
to$new
value of 'printerName' in$deviceDsSpooler
to$new
value of 'uNCName' in$deviceDsSpooler
to$computername$new
finally rename the printers registry key from$device
to$new
- restart printer service:
net start spooler
Info gathered from
http://sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/89521-rename-network-printer.htmhttp://virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/17/prnrename-an-autoit-based-utility-to-rename-ipp-printers-in-windows/
http://sevenforums.com/hardware-devices/89521-rename-network-printer.htmhttp://virtualroadside.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/17/prnrename-an-autoit-based-utility-to-rename-ipp-printers-in-windows/
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I just did it on my Windows 7 installation.
Go to Device and Printers, right click on the printer you want to change, select 'Printer Properties', not properties or printing preferences. Change the name in the top box. Hit OK when done.
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You cannot rename a network printer in Windows XP, Vista or 7 (not sure about others). The only way to rename is to rename it on the server, but this will break existing configuration.
There is a workaround though: you can map a LPT port to a network printer and then install as a local printer.
To map a LPT port use the following command on an command prompt with administrator privileges:
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Replace the 'X' with the LPT port you want to use, for example 2 (if your mainboard has no LPT port you can use 1 too).
Then just install the printer as if it was a local printer attached to the LPT port you specified
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I am experiencing the VERY same issue, but I might also add to what's already been discussed..
If I connect to a shared printer on my domain (the PC is attached to a workstation, NOT the server) I do NOT get the printer installed on my workstation as the shared name..
The share is called HCFA, and appears as such in the network browser.
When I double click it, the driver will download and install, but the printer is named on MY computer as 'HP LaserJet 1320 on XXXX', and I cannot rename it locally, or it breaks the share to all the OTHER computers that are connected to this same printer, EVEN IF I rename it locally to the very same name as the remote share already has.
The workstation is a DHCP client, but it has a reservation in the scope for itself. I had to do this when one of the XP workstaions in my organization stomped on it's IP, and DNS lost that workstation. I can now browse TO the workstation, and see and connect to its shares, but I cannot rename them.
I suppose I COULD just add a 170x to the network.. I'd really like to know why I can't use this the SAME way I would have setup an XP shared printer. < mumble > I hate Windows 7.. < /mumble >
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After testing both, I found this to be correct:
You need to add the printer as a local printer in order to change the name, otherwise Windows defaults it to the share name.
When you add the printer select local. Then select create port and specify TCP/IP:
Then put in your printer's IP address:
Then just follow the wizard as you would with any other local printer installation.
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If you like, rename the printer on the network:
Step 1: Rename the printer on this connect PC by right clicking and printer properties clear text and type like name
Step 2: For computer network, RUN > computer_name that connect printer and double click.
That is it.
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