I am a teacher and I do not have administrator privileges on my computer. Tech will get to it ( I am still waiting from last school year-it isn't priorty.) I am trying to find a way to have a color printer at school so that I can come home and spend time with my family instead of printing at home.
Thanks,
Jen
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The driver is for the particular printer and needs to reside in the system. To install drivers, admin rights are needed.
Drivers can not be installed outside of the system.
Otto Sykora
Basel, Switzerland
Are you able to reboot the machine? And are you able to adjust the machine's booting sequence, ie so it would boot from a USB drive, if present, before the hard drive? If so, there are possibilities for you.
Ed
I can reboot and it will recognize a usb upon restart. Can you lead me to a tutorial on how to install a printer this way?
Ok, a couple of options are available then. 1. Download a utility named WinToUSB and use it to create a Windows bootable USB drive. Boot it and see if you can install the print driver you need. 2. Download a utility named Easy2Boot and see if there is a Linux system you can try that will support printing to your printer.
They are kinda end run options but an end run across the goal line counts for just as much as a quarterback sneak up the middle.
Ed
I'm sure no harm is or was intended by anyone in this thread but in some schools in some countries this would be a sacking offence.
Other alternatives might be taking a laptop in that can connect to the printer, presuming the OP is allowed to connect non-school computers into the network, etc.
Don't mean to sound stuffy but I'd have thought making a fuss to persons above the tech stallers would be more effective.
School governance differs quite a lot from place to place and the OP doesn't say where she is.
Wm