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Connect to Office Printers as a Faculty/Staff Member

Connect to Office Printers as a Faculty/Staff Member

Only faculty and staff members using a Windows OS, university owned computer/laptop can locally connect to their office printer using these directions. You cannot connect to office printers using these directions if you are attempting to connect via an Apple product such as Macbook Air or Macbook Pro to the office printers. If your department uses secure print, be sure to obtain your Department ID to allow you to print successfully. If any issues arise while attempting to connect on your university owned computer/laptop running Windows OS or you are having issues with printing on your Apple product, then contact IT via calling 219-464-5678 or at helpdesk@valpo.edu via email.

 Instructions

Connecting to Office Printers via Windows OS computer/laptop

  1. On your keyboard, select the windows icon and the letter “r” at the same time. You should see an icon pop-up in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen.

    1. It will look like this:

      windows r icon.png

  2. Type in “\\officeprinters” within the box titled Open and press OK.

  3. A window should open that looks like this:

windowsr popup screen.png

  1. In search office printers, type the Valpo ID of your printer which will be indicated by a blue tag that Valpo ID. The Valpo ID will be 5 digits in length. Once you type your printer identification number, the printer will show up as the only printer on the screen.

  2. Double-click on the indicated printer and the drivers will be installed.

  3. After the drivers are installed you’re read to print to that printer.

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