Nov 15
Suzi T asked:
I am installing a new printer , fax, scanner, copier I have two workstations at that location. If it is not a newt work printer is it possible to print from both PC’s?
I am installing a new printer , fax, scanner, copier I have two workstations at that location. If it is not a newt work printer is it possible to print from both PC’s?
November 18th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Yes. Turn on File/Printer Sharing.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:56 pm
If the PCs are networked, yes. If the Printer can be connected to both, yes. If you can easily swap cables, yes.
Hope that helps,
Simon H
P.S If you can’t, just buy a USB Pen Drive for about 5 quid and you can just move from one PC to the other.
November 24th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
There are a few different ways you can do this. One way is to do what the other guy said, and turn on printer sharing (go to the control panel, printers and faxes, right click on the installed printer, choose sharing, give it a name. From the other computer, go to same control panel, click add printer, follow the directions for adding a printer on another computer.)
Alternately, you could get an A/B switch- but you have to make sure it’s set to the right one when you try to print.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
You can do one of two things. 1) Buy a print-server device that allows you to turn your printer into a network printer. 2) Enable file and print sharing from the computer to which it is currently installed,share your printer, then install it on the other computer.
November 28th, 2008 at 9:16 am
Use a Y Junction Cable at Both Ends, maybe a Splitter, so that Two Printer Output Cables can be linked to one printer…. that way no file Sharing, since that will be a network
Well, can try an Auto Switch Connector( Same as A/B but no Flicking Around)
However:
Try lindy.com for cables that will run from two PCs to one Printer. I found a Website in I think it was Russian that said it was about the Two Pcs to one printer connection.
However it seems that the So called Intelligent Switch in a Previous link in this Answer is the most common solution for Two PC’s to one Printer without setting up a Network Option.
November 30th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
1. If your PCs are networked connect the printer to one PC and share it so that the other PC ban print through it.
2. Connect through a auto or manual A/B switch.
3. Connect through a USB Y cable or USB Hub.
4. If your printer has more than one port, connect to different PC with different port. That means One PC through Parallel port and the other through USB port.
December 1st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
In the main computer where the printer is installed, just go to the Printer folder inside of Control Panel. Right click your All in one printer and then Click Sharing. Click on Share this printer in the window that opens and then hit OK.
Get the IP address of your computer, go to Start, Run, type “cmd” enter, type “ipconfig” enter. Write down where it says “Local Area Connection” IP address: “numbers with dots”. After this, move to the computer without a printer.
In the other computer, go to Start, Run, type “\\ipaddress\” where ipaddress are the numbers of the 1st computer. When a windows opens asking for a user name and password input those credentials from your computer. If it doesn’t ask it will be even better. Now with this command you will open a folder and the printer will be there. Double click the printer and now the 2nd computer will be able to use it.
BTW, both computers have to be in the same WORKGROUP. to check this: Right click My Computer icon on the desktop, go to properties, Computer name tab. There you can see the WORKGROUP name and even change it.