Share a Printer on Your Home Network

You're working on a document on the laptop in the living room and you want to print—except the printer's in the home office. Sharing a printer connected to a PC on your home network and printing to it from any other computer, even over a wireless connection, is a breeze. Whether you want to print from a Mac or another PC, here's how to share a single printer for use by any computer on your home network.



Step 1. Enable sharing on your printer

Step 2. (Optional) Enable file and printer sharing

Step 3. Name your shared printer

Step 4. Launch the Add Printer Wizard (Windows client)

Step 5. Connect to shared printer (Windows client)

Step 6. Browse to the Windows printer (Mac client)

Step 7. Set Printer Model (Mac client)





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