Installing printers in virtual pc

Wait for it to find nearby printers, then choose the one you want to use, and select Add device. If your printer isn't in the list, select The printer that I want isn't listed , and then follow the instructions to add it manually using one of the options. If you use wireless access points, extenders or multiple wireless routers with separate SSIDs, you'll need to ensure that you're connected to the same network as the printer for your PC to find and install it.

In most cases, all you have to do to set up a printer is to connect it to your PC. Find out how you can Share your network printer. Find out How to set a default printer in Windows Find out how you can Fix printer connection and printing problems in Windows If your printer appears "offline," find out how you can Change a printer's status to "online. If you're having problems with your printer after updating to the latest version of Windows 10, see Fix printer problems after updating Windows For driver issues, see the "Step 3: Update drivers" section of this page.

Windows 10 More To install or add a network, wireless, or Bluetooth printer. Notes: If you use wireless access points, extenders or multiple wireless routers with separate SSIDs, you'll need to ensure that you're connected to the same network as the printer for your PC to find and install it.

Need more help? Join the discussion. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you! Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? The page looks like this in our test Windows 8. In both bit and bit variants. Xerox Support and Driver download website.

After the first installation part a printer setup process starts. At first the system will look for physical printers. It doesn't matter to us, because we want to install a virtual one.

Once the procedure is finished, click on the "The printer that I want isn't listed" link. Printer setup looking for existing printers. Now we are going to add a new printer. Select the "Add a local printer or network printer with manual settings function". In Windows 7, the windows look a little different and the system ask you whenever you want to install local or network printer.

Pick whatever choice you need. The next steps are basically the same, the windows and some wording might be different, but the key principle is the same. Adding local or network printer in Windows 8. Selecting Print to File option instead regular port for printer. The setup will now give you a choice of the few drivers to select from. We didn't see much difference in them, so picked the first one.

Picking up a driver for virtual PostScript printer. Name your virtual printer as you seem fit, this will be the name visible in printer selection and in the Devices and Printers control panel. Naming newly installed virtual PS printer. Final setup progress of the installation procedure.

After the setup procedure is finished, the system asks you whenever you want to share this printer in your network. The choice is yours, we didn't want to share it, so picked the first option. Setting up printer sharing options. This is the final window of the virtual PS printer setup procedure. Now you can pick if you want the new virtual printer to be your default. Better uncheck this option, if you are regular user and won't use PostScript files in everyday business.

Finishing up the printer adding procedure. If everything went smooth and without problems, you should see your new printer in the Devices and Printers control panel, listed under the name you have saved few steps before.

We have tested it on a random PDF and it worked just fine. And that's it for this guide. We hope it will help you to solve your PostScript troubles in Windows.