How to connect multiple computers to one printer

There are several ways:

1.Connect the installed printer to one of the computers, then open (Control Panel) "Printers & Faxes" on that computer and set the installed printers to share. As long as the online neighbors can be used normally, several other computers can open the "Printers and Fax Machines" to install new printers, and select the network one, and you can quickly search for it.

Cheap. 2.Buy a 1-to-n print service switcher, this thing is very cheap, but when you use it, you have to manually switch it through the button of this print service switcher, which is troublesome.

3.Buy a network print server and extend a printer without network functionality into a network printer.

3 methods, the first advantage: the easiest, no need to add any equipment, no extra money. Disadvantages: The machine with the printer should be always on, otherwise other machines will not be able to use the printer.

The second advantage: there are no disadvantages above, and it doesn't cost much (dozens of dollars). Disadvantages: Cumbersome to use, to switch manually.

The third advantage: the most scientific method, without all the disadvantages above, fast to use. Disadvantages: The cost of input is high (several hundred yuan).

The third and first are recommended. The second is really troublesome.

Sharing the printer will do just that.

Make sure that the LAN communication is normal for multiple computers.

Install the LAN protocol IPX

This comes with Microsoft.

Share that printer.

Remember the name of the share.

The path to use this printer for other printers is.

IP Shared Name.

IP is the IP address of the computer to which the printer is connected.

Buy a network printer.

This estimate is not necessary.

1. First, set up the main computer (set the printer as a shared computer).

2. On the main computer, click the "Start" menu in the lower left corner of the desktop and select "Printers & Faxes".

3. The printer window pops up, we right-click, select "Printer Properties", click the "Share" column in the property window, tick the box in front of sharing this printer, and then click "OK";

4. Then open the control panel and click "Select Homegroup and Sharing Options";

5. In the sharing pop-up window, click "Change advanced sharing settings";

6. Check before enabling network discovery, enabling file and printer sharing, and turning off password protection sharing;

7. Then continue to set the guest access rights of the host, right-click "Computer", click "Manage", pull down the local users and groups, and select "Users";

8. Double-click guest, and in the pop-up guest window, remove the " from "account disabled";

9. This completes the complete setup of the host computer.

10. Next is the settings of the client computer: we open the computer start menu and enter the + IP address of the host computer in the input box (for example: to search for the printer shared by the host computer;

12. Right-click the printer icon, select "Connect", and then follow the prompts to install the driver, so that the sharing of 2 computer printers is completed.