Connecting your device to the copiers

Q1. How can I connect my teacher laptop or desktop to the Toshiba Copiers?  

1.  If you are on a laptop  – please make sure you are on the WDM-STAFF wireless network

2. Go to Windows Orb (what used to be START button in the bottom left). In small run window at the bottom, type   \\PS-3\

3. If you are prompted for your username and password – make sure you use   domain/username for the username,  in other words:    wdmschools\username    where username is the part of your email address in front of @wdmcs.org .  Password is just your regular computer log on password.

4.  After logging in, it will show you to available printers…   Please right click on COPIER and select CONNECT.   This will install the print option on your laptop.

Q2.  I also see a COLOR COPIER listed, can I connect to that as well – what is the difference?
A2.  Yes, you can connect to the COLOR COPIER as well.   The COPIER print queue is only Black & White – however, it allows you to pick up your printing from any copier in the district, at any school.  Connecting to the COLOR COPIER will only allow you to print to a color copier at the LRC.

Q3.   Can I print from home?
Technically, yes, it is available from home  if you have vpn connected first.  However, there are a few limits to this…

1) If you send to the copier, it must be printed before midnight, or the copier will automatically delete it.  Since there is only one print queue that handles all copier printing across the district, left over items are cleared out each night at midnight.  NOTE: the reason there is only one print queue for everyone:  this is what enables you to print once and pick it up from any printer.  If each copier has its own queue, then you are required to use only one specific copier.

2) If you print something from home and expect someone else to obtain it from the copier – that IS NOT going to work, because only your security badge will release your print jobs.

How to install PrintGroove print driver on my teacher and/or personal laptop

To install the Printgroove driver . . .

 

1. Step by step directions for how to install the PrintGroove print driver on your district or personal laptop.

To use the driver . . .

1. Open up a document you want to send to Printgroove.
2. Click on the Office button to open the menu, then click on Print.
3. On the Print dialog box, click the down arrow next to your default printer and navigate to Printgroove POD Driver.  Click to highlight that.
4. Be sure to indicate what you want for page range, number of copies.  Once you have filled those in, click on OK.
5. The File Selection dialog box will appear with your file.  Click on the filename to highlight it, then click on the Next button.
6. **THIS STEP IS VERY IMPORTANT!**  On the Driver Selection dialog box, confirm that the driver says Printgroove POD SERVE and then click on the Options button.  Fill in the appropriate text as indicated below:

User Name         type the username you use for Printgroove (it is the same as your network ID)

Password            type your password you use for Printgroove (it is the same as you network password)

IPAddress           type the following:  printshop.wdmcs.org

Port                       do not do anything to this field

1. Once completed, click on OK to continue.
2. After a few seconds, Printgroove (the web version) will open up.  You will need to complete the steps you have always done in Printgroove, except for uploading your document – you’ll see it’s already been converted to a PDF file and has been uploaded.

Should you have any problems – we encourage you to contact Laurie Heald in the district printshop.