Installing and Managing Printers
Rob Tidrow, Jim Boyce, Jeffrey R. Shapiro · 2017
This chapter looks at different ways of installing printers, including using the Windows 10 Devices tool, which user can run from Settings, as well as techniques for managing installed printers using the legacy Devices and Printers tool in Control Panel. Windows 10 includes support for wireless printing and far easier and more efficient support for ad-hoc connection to printers. Windows 10 supports Near Field Communications (NFC) tap-to-pair technology. The chapter covers two types of properties: printer properties and printing preferences. When Windows 10 has recognized a new printer connected to the computer, regardless of whether user is actively using the tool, Windows 10 automatically installs device drivers for it. Devices and Printers folder includes the same features as the new Windows 10 Devices tool, but it also adds management of printer properties and printer options and a number of tasks that are available to user.