How does Win7 connect to XP shared printers? How to set up sharing for LAN printers?

An office printer is a printer associated with a local area network. Users need to print a document and only need to send a command to print. Some users who use the Win7 system to connect to the XP system printer do not know how to operate, I have organized a LAN printer connection tutorial. Of course, the Win7 system is the same as the Win7 system printer. See below for an explanation of how Win7 systems connect to XP printers.

steps:

Check your Windows 7 and Windows XP is not connected the two computers in the same local area network, generally small office would be a local area network. And make sure your printer is connected to a Windows XP computer and is shared.

1. After doing this, open your computer with Windows 7 system and connect to the same LAN as the XP system. Open the Control Panel and find <;Devices & Printers", click on it.

2, opening the & ldquo; and Printers & rdquo; after the top of the second click button & ldquo; add printer & rdquo ;.

3, Add Printer, he will ask you what type of printer you want to install, because we want to install Windows XP computers to share printers, so we chose & ldquo; Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer . As shown in the red box below.

4, at this time, the system will automatically search the entire local area network which is connected to the shared printer, if all goes well, will be able to find the shared Windows XP computer printer in a minute.

5, after finding a printer, which we only need to select the shared printer, and then in the pop-up dialog box, select Set as Default Printer.

6. If you can't find the printer's picture, we have to choose "The printer I need is not in this list", and then choose to use “TCP/IP address or host name to add printer&rdquo ; Then & ldquo; Next & rdquo ;:

6, this time, the type of equipment we choose & ldquo; TCP /IP device & rdquo ;, the host name or IP address of the Windows XP we entered into the computer system of IP Address, then select “Next”.

7, this time, the system will automatically find the LAN IP address to the printer if you fill in the IP of the computer connected to a shared, if there is, it will prompt you to install the printer driver, and Connect to the printer.

The above is about the Win7 system to connect to the XP system printer, as long as you know the IP address of the LAN printer, the computer can be connected to the printer in any LAN, if not, the driver may not be installed.