Easy Ways to Share Printers With LAN and WIFI Cables

Easy Ways to Share Printers With LAN and WIFI Cables - Printing activities using printers, especially in a work or office environment, have a very important role. Usually the printer in an office will be connected from one computer to another, and this is commonly called printer sharing. Sharing Printers is very helpful because printing can be done directly with the PC in front of us and is more efficient.

A printer device that will be shared usually uses the LAN cable method or it can also use WIFI. To share a printer on a computer with the Windows 7 or Windows 10 operating system (OS), there is no difference because the concept is the same, namely sharing printer access.

How to to Share Printers With LAN and WIFI Cables

The following are the steps and conditions that must be taken to Share Printers With LAN and WIFI Cables:

PRINTER SHARING TERMS

• Of course the Smart Device itself, can be Canon, Epson or other brands.
• Main computer as master.
• LAN or Wifi network
• The computer must be on the same network as the master computer / printer

PRINTER SHARING WITH LAN CABLE

The first step

• Connect the printer device to the computer that will be the master.
• Then after the printer has been detected, you go to "Devices and Printers" or go to the directory: Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers
• After that, click the right logo of the printer that is ready. Right click> select "printing properties"> select menu "sharing"
• On the sharing menu check "share this printer" then click "apply" and "ok"

Second step

In this step is to connect the computer / laptop with printer sharing.

• Make sure the computer / laptop is connected to the same LAN cable as the master computer.
• Go to “Devices and Printers” or go to the directory: Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Devices and Printers
• Then "Add Printer"
• Then select “Add a network, wireless, or bluetooth printer”
• after the printer sharing name appears, click it, the printer is connected to the computer.
• Test printing and finished.

PRINTER SHARING WITH WIFI NETWORK

The first step

• The first thing to do is find out the IP of the computer that is the master printer. The trick is via CMD,

• Press the combination "Windows Logo + R" then type "CMD" and Enter (without quotes)
• After the CMD window appears, type "ipconfig" (without the quotes). Then it will appear like the image below.

• - Take note of the IP

Second step

In this step is to connect the computer / laptop with printer sharing.

• First go to windows explorer
• then in the address bar type the IP address of the master computer that was recorded earlier. “\\192.168.1.18” Enter

• After printer sharing appears right click, then select "connect"

• 
  Wait until the installation process is complete
• If you have done the PRINT test
• Done

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