In office buildings, often in one office there are several workplaces equipped with computer equipment that allows you to perform multiple production tasks. However, the printer for printing is often installed only in a single copy. Therefore, we have to use portable flash drives to be able to print various documents. Now there are many practical ideas on how to connect a printer over a local network. Focusing on one of the proposed methods, it is possible to provide a comfortable and fast printing of documents to each user, whose computer equipment is connected to the printing apparatus via a local network.
In large offices, it makes no sense to use separate printers for each PC.
Host PC Setup
In order for everyone to be able to use the same peripheral device, you should make some changes to the print settings.
Setting up the printer over the network begins with the fact that on the main personal computer to which the only printing device is connected, changes are being made to ensure that all other office workers have unhindered access through the network.
Add local device
When there is a serious task to be connected to the printer for printing to the local network, so that each user has free access to printing, you must first determine which PC the printer will be connected to.
It is important to bear in mind that such a computer must have acceptable technical resources in order to ensure efficient operation and prevent freezes. Next, you need to connect the device to computer technology via USB-cable. The computer will automatically detect the newly detected device and suggest installing the appropriate drivers. Once the drivers are installed and the test page is printed, you can follow further recommendations on how to set up the printer over the network.
It is very important to allow general access to the specified printing apparatus over the created network. Initially, go to the Control Panel, and then make the transition to the tab "Printers and Faxes". It will display all detected devices that are in the local network. It should indicate exactly the one you plan to share.
On the desired icon, you need to right-click and go to the "Properties" tab. In the dialog box that opens, select “Access”. It is there that the function is located that provides the access of the peripheral device to all other computers, and also at this stage the network name is assigned.
On the Security tab, permissions are set for all users of lokalki. This is where printer setup over the local network from the host computer is coming to an end, but it is extremely important to configure all the other computers in the local space without errors.
Configure other local computers
The number of computers that can be involved in a local network is not limited. It all depends on production tasks or private interests. Each PC can use print resources if it is properly configured in advance.
Network Printing Setup
It is important to remember that the main computer and the printing machine itself must be turned on, otherwise printing will not be possible. It is on this parameter that close attention is also paid when choosing a computer to which peripheral equipment is connected.
In order to connect a network device for making printouts, you need to go to the Control Panel, go to “Devices and Printers”, then on the horizontal taskbar find the “Add” tab. Clicking on it, the PC will automatically start searching for an available printing device, after a while a list of all peripheral equipment will appear.
In most cases, one available printer will be found, although several devices may be detected. The user is obliged to select only the device from which it is supposed to carry out printing of documents in the future.
Fortunately, modern operating systems are designed so that they are able to independently find the required drivers, so no special user involvement is required here, apart from confirming the desired choice of peripheral equipment. The operating system will detect the driver itself, install it itself, so you just need to wait for the process to complete successfully.
Only in extremely rare cases can it happen that the search for drivers fails, they simply will not be detected. This happens when there is no access to the Internet, and the drivers are not saved on the PC hard disk. In this case, the user must either download the driver from another PC that has access to the global web, or use the disks that came with the device for printing. Unfortunately, there is no other way out, otherwise it will simply not be possible to connect printing peripheral equipment.
Another important point: the “Default Device” parameter must be set on the network equipment so that you can immediately start the printing process, without having to select the network name each time in the device selection window.
Installing affordable printing peripherals in the office or at home is not difficult. It is very important to follow the recommendations of specialists, thanks to which the printing of documents from any PC will be carried out without problems.