Devices and printers file location

Last Modified Date. Applies To. To export all parameters from Windows driver: "Export": This button is used to export settings to a file. Select the type s of settings you want to export from the list, and then press this button. To import all parameters from Windows driver: "Import": This button is used to import previously saved printer driver settings.

File 1. File 2. File 3. Another tool to use for setting up and managing printers is the Devices and Printers folder. This folder includes the same features of the new Windows 8 Devices tool see the preceding section , but also adds management of properties and printer options to the list of tasks available to you. In the past, aside from actually printing documents, just about everything you did with printers took place in the Devices and Printers folder.

As you read already, some tasks can be done using the new Devices tool. Sometimes you need to find the name and network location of a shared printer so you can copy a file to it or connect a locally installed printer driver to it. Network printer names are a combination of the name of the server computer they're attached to and the "share" name of the printer the name an administrator gave the printer when it was created and shared.

The name looks like this:. The printer's network name is:. Sometimes the network printer name appears in the Print dialog when you print from an application. If so, it's very easy to find:.