Windows 8 In Depth

Adding a New Printer

How you go about adding a new printer depends on how you’ll be connecting to it:

• If your printer is connected directly to your computer with a USB, parallel, or serial printer cable, you are installing a local printer. Installing a local printer is covered in the next section.

• If you want to use a printer that’s shared by another computer on your network, you still need to set up a printer icon on your own computer. This is called installing a network printer, and it’s covered under “Using Printers on the Network” in Chapter 21, “Using a Windows Network.”

• A printer that’s physically connected to the network itself and not cabled to another computer is called a local printer on a network port, which is somewhat confusing, ...