Personal Printers

Basic Help

The DoIT Help Desk will generally provide best effort support over the phone for problems with personal printers for support students, faculty, and staff. This may include roughly 15 minutes of assistance reinstalling the printer drivers, checking printer status, etc. You may also refer to the self-help troubleshooting advice found in Printer - General Troubleshooting Advice. If you call for assistance and we are unable to resolve the issue over the phone, you have the remaining option:

NOTE: If you are having issues setting up a wireless printer, the Help Desk will be unable to assist you at our onsite locations. Wireless printers require manual set up on your network and we are unable to replicate that environment at our onsite location.

• Your printer manufacturer: You may contact the manufacturer or the store from which you bought the printer for further help. If you have a hardware problem or a Help Desk agent cannot help you, you will be referred to the manufacturer.

Hardware Issues

The most common hardware issues include paper no longer feeding through the printer properly, pages printing incorrectly or not at all even following a ink/toner change, the printer not powering on at all, etc.

Most personal printers are inkjet printers. Unfortunately, these are not able to be repaired by neither DoIT Repair or Departmental Support services. If the DoIT Help Desk believes your printer is suffering from a hardware issue, you will generally need to speak to the manufacturer of the printer for further help.

Departmental Printers

Basic Help

The DoIT Help Desk can only provide very basic assistance with departmental printer issues. This primarily includes reinstalling printer drivers. If that does not fix the problem (or if you do not have administrator access for the computer) then you will generally need to contact your local IT support staff for further assistance.