Sharing A Usb Printer; Chapter 11 Sharing A Usb Printer; Overview; What You Can Do In This Chapter - ZyXEL Communications P870HNU-51B User Manual

This chapter describes how you can share a USB printer via your Device.

11.1 Overview

The Device allows you to share a USB printer on your LAN. You can do this by connecting a USB
printer to one of the USB ports on the Device and then allowing the computers connected to your
network to communicate with the print server (Device) using the Internet Printing Protocol.
Figure 68 Sharing a USB Printer

11.1.1 What You Can Do in this chapter

• The Print Server screen lets you enable the print server on the Device and get the model name
of the associated printer.
• This chapter also shows you examples of adding a new network printer using Windows
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page 175).

11.2 What You Need to Know

Print Server
This is a computer or other device which manages one or more printers, and which sends print jobs
to each printer from the computer itself or other devices.
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(Section 11.4 on page
171) and adding a new network printer using Macintosh OS X

Sharing a USB Printer

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