How to set up a connected network printer under XP system?

When you want to use the network to print a few devices, you must first set up before you can connect. How to set up a network printer connection? This article will share with you how to set up a network printer connection under xp system.

Printer sharing can effectively save office resources and improve office efficiency, but there are still many friends who don't know how to set it up. Then this article explains how to set up the connection of network printers. This tutorial is really under xp system. The win7 system is set up as below.

1, we open the start menu in the lower left corner of the desktop, select “Printer and Fax"

2, we right click on a printer, select “share”

3, before you will be prompted how to share, select “ only share the printer & rdquo;, we choose to share, as shown. Click “ Apply & rdquo;.

4, we can see that the printer has become a shared look, and there is a style of hand-holding.

5, then how do we connect these shared printers, the easiest way is to double-click on the network neighborhood on the desktop. Click View Workgroup on the left

We double click on the computer where we share the printer and we see the shared printer.

6, we only need to double-click on the printer. If there is no driver, you will be prompted to install it. Generally, you can confirm it. Then set it as the default printer and set it as the default.

7, another method is, in the printer and fax, click on the left side of the "add printer" & <">>

8, the dialog box appears, click Next

9, we choose network printer here

10, if we don't know the exact name of the other computer, you can choose to browse the printer &, if you know, you can choose the second item. A printer", you can quickly connect to the user name.

We select here "Browse Printer"

11. After we find the shared computer, double click and select the shared printer. Click Next

12. After selecting the default, click Next to complete.