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Sharing printers on a home or small-business network doesn't sound like much of a topic you might think, but there are lots of different ways of going about this task, each with its own advantages and restrictions. We'll start with sharing a local printer.
Local sharing
It may or may not be obvious, but if you're running Windows the easiest way of sharing a printer is to take one already attached to a PC and use the tools provided by the operating system to make it available to others. No extra software is required and it's more or less a tickbox option - see the box below: 'How to share a Windows printer the easy way'.
Another benefit is the ability to share virtually any locally attached printer this way, be it an inkjet, laser or even a dot matrix, whether it's attached by a serial, parallel or USB port. You can even share a connection to a printer directly attached to the Lan, but more about that later. In the meantime the only type of printer that you may not be able to share using Windows is one where custom software is required to handle all or part of the processing usually done by the printer itself. Often referred to as GDI (Graphics Device...
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