#APPLE AIRPORT EXPRESS WINDOWS SETUP INSTALL#

If your printer isn’t there, you’ll have to download a driver and use the Have Disk… option. Select your printer’s Manufacturer from the list, then select your specific printer from the Printers list, then click Next.The default Generic Network Card would probably work okay, but I didn’t try it. Select Network Print Server (1 Port – USB) from the Standard Device Type list.If it still fails to detect it, don’t worry about it and continue anyway. If not, you probably entered the wrong IP address. The wizard will say it’s Detecting the TCP/IP port.Leave Port name at whatever it fills in, uncheck Query the printer and automatically select the driver to use, and click Next. That’s probably 10.0.1.1, but you can check it by running the ipconfig command from a command prompt and looking for the Wireless LAN’s Default Gateway address. Fill in the Hostname or IP address with the address of your Airport Extreme router.Click Create a new port, and select Standard TCP/IP Port from the drop-down list, and click Next.Select the Add a local printer option (yes, it’s not local, but that’s Microsoft for you).Select Devices and Printers from the Windows Start menu.There are a lot of steps, but they’re easy.

#APPLE AIRPORT EXPRESS WINDOWS SETUP INSTALL#

Instead, just use the regular Windows 7 Install Printer wizard. Do not pay any attention to anything Apple says regarding printing from your Windows PC.Do not install any Apple software on your Windows PC.Or, you could do what ended up working for me. Subsequent print jobs from the same or any other PC or Mac did nothing until you turned the printer off and back on. But it would only print black-and-white to my color laser printer.It was easy to switch to the right driver, which worked.

It showed the correct printer, but selected a driver for a different printer (that didn’t work at all).

Run the Bonjour Printing Wizard, answering its questions one by oneĪnd that works.Want to print from your Windows 7 PC to a USB printer connected to Apple’s Airport Express? Well, you can do what Apple says:

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