I have multiple Mac’s in my
office but only one printer. I would like to be able to have people on
different computers print to my printer. We are all connected to the same WiFi
network, can I set this up myself?
If your printer is relatively
modern and supports network or WiFi sharing that is probably your best choice.
Every printer handles this differently however you will need to look in the
documentation to see how to do it. If your network router has a USB port you
can also often share a printer through the network router. If you have neither
of those things then you can use the Mac’s native sharing and to do that go to
System Preferences on the computer that has the printer attached, turn on
Printer Sharing and then enable sharing for the specific printer that you would
like to share. Then on each of the Macs no matter how you have done this you
will need to add the printer so the users can print to the shared printer from
their Mac. As a matter of fact the steps for doing this on a Windows PC are
exactly the same so there is nothing specific about using a Mac except where
you go to turn on printer sharing and that is System Preferences.
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/computing/apple/how-to-share-printers-on-mac-1300314?src=rss&attr=all
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