How Do I Create a Shortcut for My Printer in Windows 11?
You can place a printer shortcut anywhere on a Windows 11 computer. Selecting the shortcut will open the printer queue and allow you to control any running print job. Here are two methods you can use.
Create a Shortcut From the Control Panel
Windows 11 (and Windows 10) consolidated printers under Settings. But you can still access the old printer applets from the Control Panel and open Printer preferences or Printer settings for your chosen printer.
Go to Start. Search for Control Panel and select the first result. Select Hardware and Sound. Select Devices and Printers. Go to the list of devices under Printers and select the printer to create the desktop shortcut for. Right click on the printer’s icon and select Create shortcut. Windows displays a prompt and offers to create the printer shortcut on the desktop. Select Yes. The shortcut is now visible on the Windows desktop.
Create a Shortcut From the Desktop
The above steps are straightforward. But as an exercise, you can create a printer shortcut from the desktop itself. First, use the above steps to note down the exact name of the printer you want to use. Then, follow the following steps.
Right-click on any blank area of the desktop. Select New > Shortcut. In the Create Shortcut wizard, enter the following path for the printer’s location (substitute the “Name of Printer” with your printer’s actual name): rundll32. exe printui. dll,PrintUIEntry /o /n “Name of Printer” Select Next. Give the shortcut a name and select Finish to place the printer shortcut on the desktop.
How Do I Get the Printer Icon on My Toolbar in Windows 11?
The Windows 11 taskbar isn’t as customizable as the one in Windows 10, and, so far, you can’t pin the printer icon to the taskbar in Windows 11.
rundll32.exe printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /o /n “Name of Printer”
You can pin any open app, file, folder, website, and even a drive to the taskbar. But pinning a device or a printer icon is still not possible through any workaround.
