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PRINTER CONNECTION TUTORIAL
Visual Cue
Narration
Slide 1 Hello and welcome to the spoken tutorial on Printer Connection.
Slide 2 In this tutorial, we will learn to connect a printer to a computer.
Slide 3 For this tutorial, I'm using
  • Ubuntu Linux 12.10 OS and
  • Cannon printer


Show images of the various components as they are being narrated Let me quickly introduce you to the various components of a computer.


This is the

  • CPU
  • Monitor
  • Keyboard
  • Mouse and
  • Printer


Show the front of CPU Let's look at the CPU.
Zoom to the USB Ports in front of the CPU >> then rotate and

go to the back of the CPU >> Zoom in to show the USB ports


The ports should be clearly visible at the front and back.


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In most of the CPUs, there are some USB ports in the front and some at the back.
Show the front of printer Now, let's have a look at our printer.
Zoom into the power switch Usually there is a power switch on the front or top part of the printer.
Rotate and go to the back.


Zoom in to show the power slot and the USB port.


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And there is a power slot and a USB port at the back of the printer.
Show a USB cable image To connect a printer to a computer, we have to use a USB cable.
Connect USB Cable >> First end to Printer.


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Let's connect the USB cable to the printer.



Connecting USB Cable other end to Computer.


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Now let's connect the other end of the cable, to the CPU's USB port.



Rotate back to the front view of the printer

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Now, our printer is connected to the computer.
Show the power button being switched ON on the printer

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Switch on the power button on the printer.
Now, let's configure the printer using our computer.
Show Desktop Let's go to the Desktop.
Click on Dash Home Click on the Dash Home icon, at the top left hand side of the launcher bar.
Type Printing in the search bar. In the Search bar, type Printing
Point to the Printer icon. The printer icon will be displayed.
Click on it. Click on it.
Slide 4 In older versions of Ubuntu, click on System - > Administration -> Printing.
Now, the Printing dialog box appears.


It says - There are no printers configured yet.

On the Printing dialog box, point to the Add button >> click on it. At the top left corner, there is a button named Add, with a green Plus sign on it.


Click on it.

New Printer dialog It will open the New Printer dialog box.
Point to the list shown On the left hand side, a list of printer devices connected to the computer, is displayed.
Select Cannon Printer >> click on Forward Here, let's select our printer, i.e., Cannon Printer and click on Forward.
Click on Cancel Then it will automatically begin searching for drivers.


I will click on Cancel.

Show Choose Driver dialog Now, the dialog box switches to the Choose Driver option.



Point to Default The Default option will work in most cases.
Point to Canon Printer Since, I have a Canon Printer, hence in this list, it is selected by default.
Click on Forward Now click on Forward.
Show Choose Driver dialog – Model page. In the Model page, my printer model is automatically detected.


It is indicated as Recommended, in brackets.

Point to the Drivers section Also in the Drivers section, it shows the driver suitable for my printer.



Click on Forward Now, click on Forward again.
Show Choose Driver dialog – Describe Printer page. Now, we are prompted to describe our printer - printer name and its location.



Click on Apply. I will keep it as Default and click on Apply.
Our printer is successfully added to our computer.
Show Printing dialog A message appears “Would you like to print a test page?”
Click on Print Test Page Let's click on Print Test Page option.
A pop up will appear with a a message

“Submitted – Test Page submitted as...”


job and its number.

Click on OK. Click on OK.
Click on OK. Again click OK in the Printer Properties dialog box.
Show the printer printing the test paper


(Blender - Animation)

Here is our test print from our printer.



Our printer is now ready to print our documents.
Close the dialog box Let's close the Printer dialog box.
Let me quickly demonstrate how to print a document.
Open the script pdf file for this tutorial. Let's open a document.
Press Ctrl & P Then, press the keys Ctrl and P together.
Show the Print dialog box The Print dialog box appears.
Point to the printer Notice that the connected printer is selected by default.
In this dialog box, we have several options.
Point to Range Range allows us to select the range of pages that we want to print.
Showing the Range Option in the print dialog box. There are some options available under Range.


1. All pages option prints all the pages in the document.

2. Current page option prints only the current selected page.

3. Pages option prints the pages according to our specification, say for example, 3-4.

Point to Copies Next, let's look at the options available under Copies.
Point to Copies Copies option is where we choose the no. of copies that we want to print.
Change Copies to 2 If we change Copies to 2, then 2 copies of the selected pages will be printed.
Click on Print And click on the Print button.
Show the page being printed

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If you have configured your printer correctly, your document will started printing.
Slide 5 This brings us to the end of the tutorial. In this tutorial, we learnt to
  • Connect a printer to a computer
  • Configure the printer settings
  • Print a document


And we also learnt about the various print options available.

We hope this information was helpful.
Slide 6

About the Spoken Tutorial Project

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It summarises the Spoken Tutorial project.

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Slide 7


Acknowledgement

Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project.

It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.

More information on this Mission is available at:

spoken hyphen tutorial dot org slash NMEICT hyphen Intro.

Thank you for watching.

The script for this tutorial was written by Pravin.

And this is Nancy from the Spoken Tutorial Project, IIT Bombay signing off.

Contributors and Content Editors

Chandrika, Nancyvarkey