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Printer setup (internal DESY network)

Most printers at DESY are network printers, i.e. you can reach the printers wirelessly via the Internet. The respective print queues belonging to the printer are set up with the help of DESY printer servers. The current DESY printer server in Hamburg is called adprint10 (host name). The successor adprint11 is already available in test mode.

This documentation describes the setup for printing from the internal DESY network. Alternatively, the following web page describes how to print from the guest network:
https://it.desy.de/services/druck/guest_network___wlan/printing_from_windows_10

 

⤷ Set up a printer (DESY-Hamburg)

To set up a printer on your DESY Windows device, proceed as follows:

  1. Connect the device to the DESY intranet. Either directly via network cable or from outside via VPN.
  2. In the Windows search bar, type: "desy printer".
  3. You should be offered a start menu entry named "DESY Printer":


     
  4. Select it. A list of all available printers opens:


     
  5. Enter the desired printer name in the "Name" field and click "Find now". Alternatively, sort the list alphabetically by printer name by clicking on the column heading "Name".
    Please be sure to read the section "Changed Printer Names / Use of Presets", as some printer names have changed.
  6. Now double-click on the entry to add the printer and wait briefly until the window that opens has closed again. You will not receive a confirmation if the installation was successful. Perform this step with all printers you want to use. Afterwards you can close the printer search window again.

The printers installed in this way are now available in the printer selection of Office and other programs.

If you can not find the desired printer, first check the changed printer names in the following section. Otherwise, please contact the central IT helpdesk (e-mail: uco@desy.de, tel: 5005) for information on the printer name.

 

⤷Set up a printer (DESY-Zeuthen)

For the internal network in Zeuthen, you can find information on the following website:
https://dv-zeuthen.desy.de/services/windows/printing_from_internal_network


 

⤷Additional information + printer setup tips

Under the following web page some more information and tips for the setup of a printer especially in connection with the new DESY printer server adprint11 can be found:

https://it.desy.de/services/druck/windows/add_printers_via_adprint11

⤷Which purpose has the DESY printer server?

In order to be able to process your print requests and also those of other users in an organized manner, there is a central printer server in the internal DESY network. The printer server can communicate with all network printers (printer clients). The printer server receives your print requests and forwards them to the respective network printer (printer client) in an organized manner.

 

⤷What is a print queue?

To organize print requests, the individual printers work on the principle of a queue. The print jobs are processed (printed) one after the other. To be able to use a printer in the DESY network, you must therefore set up this so-called print queue(s) of the printer on your PC.

💡 On the new DESY printer server adprint11 there is only one print queue per printer, which processes all types of print jobs (e.g. black and white, color or A3 format prints). So you only have to set up one print queue on your PC.

 

 

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