To connect my printer, I simply powered it on, enabled the wireless feature and Windows 8 recognized it on my WiFi network right away.įrom the Metro Start screen, use the Keyboard Shortcut Windows Key + W to bring up the Settings Search field. Here I’m setting up a Canon MP495 Wireless printer that’s about a year old. The v4 architecture produces smaller, faster printer drivers, and it supports the idea of a print class driver framework–a system that allows people to install their printers without having to locate a driver for that device, in many cases. In Windows 8 we’ve introduced a new printer driver architecture, which we call version 4, or v4. He explains how Windows has re-imagined the printing feature in Windows 8, and in my tests, I’ve found that he’s right. Recently Steven Sinofsky wrote a post on the Building Windows 8 blog about the evolution of printing from Windows 1.0 to Windows 8. One of the features not often discussed is improved support for printers in Windows 8.
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