Printers will be set up in offices. For convenience, printer sharing will be set up in the LAN, so that the files you want can be printed directly at your seat. Recently, some users have reported that they can see the shared printer in Win7 system, but cannot connect to it. What should I do? For this problem of being unable to connect to a shared printer, the editor will explain to you the solution.

The details are as follows:

1. First click on the Start Control Panel Printers (Start Devices and Printers) in the win7 system;

2. Then select "Add Printer";

3. Then select "Add Local Printer" and click it;

4. Select "Create New Port" and select "local port";

5. Press Next, you will be prompted to enter the port name, enter the absolute path of the shared printer, the format is: (shared printer address) (shared name of the shared printer), such as nameMP258, press OK;

6. Select the "manufacturer" and "model" of your network printer and click Next;

[If you do not find the corresponding manufacturer of your printer, there are two ways to solve it: 1. Install the printer driver from the hard disk, 2. Download the corresponding printer driver from the Internet and install it]

7. The addition is successful, try printing a test page.

The above is the solution to the problem that the shared printer cannot be connected in Win7 system. Is it very simple? If you have this problem, you can follow this method to fix it. I hope it can help you.