XP and Win7 Printer sharing how to set up

Necessary knowledge of office staff what should we do after ~! in Word layout? Of course it was printed, and today we go on to the last set of default printers: How to set up Printer sharing in XP and Win7 systems?

The meaning of printer sharing is that any computer in the local area network can use the same printer by sharing a printer, and can share a printer more than one, thus greatly reducing the cost of consumables, without a single printer per person.

Printer Sharing settings Note: The prerequisite for Printer sharing settings must be to ensure that the local area network is unblocked, to verify that the shared printer is on the power-on state, whether the printer driver has been installed, whether the normal printing.

Because the most left is the Win7 operating system, but XP this classic version of the system is still a majority of the use, so this article set up a printer sharing tutorial on XP and Win7 two different systems set up methods.

How to set up Printer sharing in XP system

Set the local printer as a shared printer so that other users on the local area network can also use it.

① open Printers and Faxes from the Start menu;

② after entering the Printers and Faxes window, right-click the printer you want to share, and then select Share;

③ in the pop-up window we select "Share" and "Share this printer", and start a share name "lichaoMP140", and then determine;

④ at this time, it will be our computer to set up a shared printer, the printer icon than before a "small hand", which means that we set up a successful sharing, this printer can be used in the local area network by other users.

Second, how to find a shared printer, and through the local area of the shared printer to print?

Just speaking of the local installation service side, now is the installation of the client, as long as the addition of this shared printer can achieve network sharing print;

① When you perform the third step of adding a printer, select Network printer and click Next, where you can set up a way to find a printer;

② If a user wants to find a printer in a workgroup, you can click Next to eject the Find Printer dialog box. Because inside the LAN, you can choose to "type the printer name, or click ' Next ' to browse the printer" single option.

③ users can enter the printer name or click "Next" to eject the "Browse for Printer" dialog box. Here, the Shared printers list box lists all the shared printers in the domain and the computers that are connected to the printer. If you have more than one printer in your local area network, you can find a printer that works for you here.

④ Click the "Next" button, in the pop-up dialog box, the user can set whether the printer is set as the default printer.