How To Find All Printers On The Network

Is your printer causing some undiagnosed issues while running, for instance leaving white spots on printed text? How about troubleshooting to see if that helps or not? Almost every printer troubleshoot begins with its IP address. So, what to do if you are unaware of your printer’s IP address?

Don’t worry we have held you back. We are here to help you find out all the printers that have you connected to your network along with identifying the specific IP address of each printer. Follow through our review to know in detail How to find all printers on the network.

Reminder. Before starting with the actual process to find out all the printers on your network, we would like to remind you that the given process is specific for Windows 10 computers/ operating systems. Since the operating system of Windows is the same you can follow the instructions for windows 7, 8, and 10 operating devices.

Since we are going to find out if the printers are connected with your local area network, it is a must for all the printers to be connected with the same network.

Solution How To Find All Printers On The Network

 The steps to find all printers on the network

Step 1

Connect all of the available printers in your vicinity to your LAN network. Similarly, connect the computer to the same LAN network from which you intend to find out your printers.

Step 2

Power on all your printers. Now go to the desktop on your computer and open the file explorer folder. You can go to the file explorer directly from the desktop or through your libraries in my Computer folder. Now open any folder of your choice.

Step 3

Open the documents, let’s assume you decided to go with documents. Now hover your mouse pointer to the left column of your documents. You will see the network option. Go to a network folder. The network folder will show all the connected devices to your network.

Step 4

In most cases, the network directory will not be visible as it is hidden by your computer. You can enable it by clicking on the computer network discovery option displayed on the left-hand side of the network window.

Step 5

Once you have enabled your computer network discovery. All the printers that are connected to the same network as that of your windows computer will be enlisted under the discovery pop-up box.

You can locate all the printers by identifying the brand and model numbers from the list.

If you want to connect a new printer with your computer that was not formerly in use, you can also make use of the computer network discovery to connect your computer with the printer.

Follow the given steps to connect your printer for the first time with your computer.

• Power on your computer
• Turn on your printer
• Open the printer LAN connectivity by pressing the wireless connectivity button.
• Now, go to network and discover your computer.
• All the connected devices including your printer will be displayed.
• Right-click on the printer name and install it.
• Now an administration login dialogue box will be prompted before you.
• Now enter the credentials of your printer like the printer brand name, and model, select a username and enter a password. And save your settings.

Now your printer is installed with your computer and it will readily be able every time you power it on and connect it with your LAN network.

The installed printer will be accessible by all the programs installed on your computer for example words. You can run the print command directly from the word files without arranging your printer over and again from the beginning.

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