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Latest revision as of 09:38, 12 August 2013
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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
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Show images of the various components as they are being narrated | Let me quickly introduce you to the various components of a computer.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Rotate back to the front view of the printer
(Blender - animation) |
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.
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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.
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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.
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Show Choose Driver dialog | Now, the dialog box switches to the Choose Driver option.
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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.
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Point to the Drivers section | Also in the Drivers section, it shows the driver suitable for my printer.
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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.
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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...”
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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
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Here is our test print from our printer.
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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.
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
(Blender - Animation) |
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
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We hope this information was helpful. | |
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About the Spoken Tutorial Project |
Watch the video available at the following link.
If you do not have good bandwidth, you can download and watch it. |
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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. |