Your Printer is a peripheral which produces a hard copy of your documents that are stored in electronic form, usually on a physical print media such as paper. Do you know how to install a driver for a remote Printer on your PC? If you want to know it just take a little help from these given simple steps and you can install it all by yourself on your computer. You don’t need to drain your money for it. Just sit with it and invest some time from your busy schedule. So before stating you must remember that you must log on as an administrator when you update your Printer driver locally for a remote printer that is on a print server which is running on Microsoft Windows 2000 or Microsoft Windows XP.

Let’s start with Windows XP. You need to follow these steps to install your Printer driver locally on your Windows XP based computer. The steps are as follows:

1. Firstly click Start, then click Control Panel. From there click Printers and Other Hardware, and then Printers and Faxes.

2. Secondly, double-click on Add Printer option to start your Add Printer Wizard, and click Next.

3. Thirdly click on to Local printer, clear, automatically detect and install check box, and click Next.

4. Fourthly click Create a new port, and click Local Port in your Port type section.

5. Fifthly in the Port Name box, type the path to the printer in this following format, where your server is the name of the print server and the printer is the name of your printer:

\server\printer

6. Click Next and select your Windows 2000 or Windows XP driver for your printer.

7. Click Next and follow the instructions to finish the wizard. You can even get more information about it from Internet.

If you have Windows 2000 based computer, you can follow these steps to install your Printer driver locally on a Windows 2000 computer:

1. First click Start, point to Settings and Printers.

2. Double-click on Add Printer to start your Add Printer Wizard.

3. Click on My Computer and click Next.

4. Click Add Port, then click Local Port, and click New Port.

5. In your Port Name box, type your path to the printer in the following format, where your server is the name of your print server and the printer is the name of your printer:

\server\printer

6. Lastly click OK, and click Close.

Your installation of driver for your remote Printer on your PC is complete. Now, you have to remember that while using this procedure, your print job is printed locally and then it is redirected to your network path. When you are using this procedure, you will not receive Printer updates from the print server when you are updating your Printer driver on the print server. You can get more information about this installation from Internet. Our Printer and Peripheral Support plays an important role in supporting your PC operations