How to set up a shared printer tutorial

Before sharing the print, please confirm that the computer of the share and the user's computer are in the same LAN, and the LAN is unblocked.

The first step is to share the printer.

1, first of all, to confirm with the shared printer connected to the Power-on state, and has installed the printer driver, and can achieve normal printing, for the driver installation is not described here. (The actual operation of the two computers are the Windows XP Professional version of the operating system)

2. The actual operation of the shared printer. We take Canon PIXMA MP145 All-in-one Machine (subordinate to one of the Canon MP 140 series) as an example, this is not a network function of one machine, but, by connecting a computer, and then do the corresponding settings can be realized after sharing printing.

① computer Control Panel for printers and fax machines (Figure 1), click into Figure 2.

Figure 1 Printer and fax machine

② in (Figure 2), right click on the printer you want to share--canon MP140 Series printer, then click "Share" on the left mouse button, and then eject (Figure 3).

Figure 2 The left mouse button click "Sharing"

③ in (Figure 3), click "Share this Printer", and start a share name "lichaoMP140", then click "OK" button, so (Figure 3) the interface automatically exits.

Figure 3 Click "Share this printer"

④ So, we see (Figure 4) in the printer icon than before a "small hand" flag, at this point, indicating that the sharing is open, this printer can be used in the local area network by other users.

Figure 4 Sharing Open

Step two: How to find a shared printer

When my colleague puts Canon PIXMA MP145 in the LAN, all users in the same LAN can find this device and realize the print job, below please see how the author operates.

① everything starts with start, click Start-Run, and then pop up (Figure 6).

Figure 5 Click "Start-run"

② in the Run dialog box, the computer that connects the print device to the IP address in the LAN, "192.168.0.237" (Figure 6) (How to obtain the IP see below), find the print device shared in the LAN (Figure 7).

Figure 6 Enter the IP address of the computer that connects the print device to the local area network

Figure 7 Finding a print device that is shared within a local area network

③ Next, test share printing (Figure 8), the shared Canon print device (also with IP address: 192.168.0.237) has appeared in the pop-up dialog box (Figure 9), and then clicked to print, and the test document was printed successfully (Figure 10).

Figure 8 Testing shared printing

Figure 9 Click Print

Figure 10 Implementing shared printing through remote control

The above two big steps are how to share a printer and implement shared printing in a local area network.