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Printing from a laptop or from home
The Wireless and Remote Printing (WARP) service allows you to print from home or from a laptop on campus to University Student Printers.
- The service doesn’t support MacOS, Linux or Mobile Phone printing.
- The university cannot be held responsible for inappropriate charges incurred due to failure in following these instructions.
There are several steps in this 12 minute procedure but they’re all quite straightforward and you only need to do most of them once.
Before you start, make sure you have the following:
- Your CFS username and password
- Administrator level access to the computer – most users will have this by default
- When printing from your laptop on campus via university wireless service ensure it's connected to the wireless service.
Step 1 (1 minute)
Identify your version of Windows as 32 or 64bit
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Hold down the Windows key on your keyboard |
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and press the Pause/Break key. |
In the dialog box presented (link will open a separate window) the version of Windows is shown as Windows 7, Windows Vista or Windows XP. Notice particularly if the term 32 or 64bit is listed as this is important to the next step. If the term 32 or 64bit isn’t used then assume 32bit.
Step 2 (5 minutes)
Install the Print Driver
Click on the link below to install the printer driver appropriate for 32bit or 64bit Windows.
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32-bit Windows XP, Vista and 7 |
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64-bit Windows XP, Vista and 7 |
- Once downloaded, click Run in the dialog box presented.
If a User Account Control warning is displayed click Yes or Allow.
If a warning is displayed stating that you have insufficient privileges to install, ask the person who manages your PC to install these printer drivers using their Administrator privileges.
- Click Start in the following dialog box.
- Click Yes, if you are asked whether you want to allow the following program from an unknown publisher to make changes to this computer, and click Next to start the installation.
- To accept the End User License Agreement, click Next and when the installation is finished, click Finish.
Step 3 (5 minutes)
Set up Print Queues
Instructions vary depending upon your version of Windows.
