Printing at Home & School

Typically to Print, there are two methods: Printing via USB cable or printing wirelessly.  Below you will find directions for both methods.

Option 1: Printing via USB Cable

This option is the easiest and most tried and true.  Basically, you plug the USB cable from your printer into your laptop.  When you plug it in, your computer should do all the setup work for you.  If you're printing a word document and the printer is plugged into your laptop. all you have to do is select the printer and print.

Option 2: Wireless Printing

For most wireless printers, this will be easy to set up. 

1. Click on the search button on the bottom left of your screen next to the Windows symbol.   
2. Type "Printer" and select "Printer & Scanners" 
3. Select "+ Add a printer or scanner"
4.  Searching for your printer
5. Select your wireless printer and follow any steps that follow.
6. Go print!
7. If that does not work, read below.

The requirement to print will be limited for most students, but when needed, students can save files to the cloud or external storage and print via devices at home or other locations.  District devices are configured to print to specific printers at school.   You may install a printer at home, as long the printer doesn’t require administrative rights.  Some models of newer printers (especially Wi-Fi-enabled printers) require Administrative Rights to be installed.  Student accounts can’t have these rights, but there are some options for using them.  One option might be to configure a special email address so that anything sent to that specific address is automatically printed.  Check your printer documentation for details.  Another option might be to use Google Cloud Print or another 3^rd party option that could allow you to print using Chrome instead of having to install a print driver.  See google.com/cloudprint for details.

NOTE:  If your home printer requires that you have admin rights to your school laptop to be able to print, there is a workaround to still let you print to that printer as long as you have a google (Gmail) account and it’s either a WiFi printer or connected to a computer with internet access.  If you need additional help beyond these instructions, please visit http://bit.ly/mcscloudprinthelp (Links to an external site.) for additional instructions and tips.

GOOGLE CLOUD PRINTING: 

If your printer says that it’s Cloud-ready, follow your printer manufacturer’s instructions to see google.com/cloudprint/learn/printers.  If your printer doesn’t say it’s Cloud-ready, follow the steps below:

• Turn on your printer.
• On your Windows or Mac computer, open Chrome.
• At the top right, click More Settings.
• At the bottom, click advanced.
• Under “Printing,” click Google Cloud Print.
• Click Manage Cloud Print devices.
• If prompted, sign in with your Google Account.
• Select the printers you want to connect to, and then click ADD printer(s).
• The printer is now associated with your Google Account and connected to Google Cloud Print. You can print to this printer from any device where you’re signed in to your Google Account.

ON YOUR COMPUTER

• Open Chrome.
• Open the page, image, or file you want to print.
• Click File -> Print. Or, use a keyboard shortcut.
• In the window that appears, click Change to choose your Google Cloud Printer.
• Change any print settings you want.
• When ready, click Print.

When you need to print something at school for class, print to the Library Printer.  Here are instructions on how to add that printer so you can print to it from your computer.

Adding the Library Printer:

1. Click on the search button on the bottom left of your screen next to the Windows symbol.   
2. Type "Printer" and select "Printer & Scanners" 
3. Select "+ Add a printer or scanner"
4.  Searching for your printer
5. Select the printer (may have to scroll down) named something like "MJ Library...)  Make sure it is MJ and not MHS.
6. Remembering the rules below, Go print!

Rules for Printing @ School:

• Consider Printing Double Sided to save trees
• Print in Black in White (or Grayscale), it’s cheaper!
• Print only things needed by your teacher
• Printing Personal docs, pictures, etc. is prohibited.  Violating this rule will result in a DLOG entry and possible loss of printing Privileges.
• This year, you can print 200 Black & White copies or roughly 100  Color copies….PLENTY
• If you run out, come to the Help Desk and we will look at your Print jobs (hope there are no print jobs that were not school related)            

More copies can be added if determined to be justified.