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ReadySHARE Printer
You can connect a USB printer to the router’s USB port, and share it among Windows and
Mac computers on the network.
To set up ReadySHARE Printer:
1.
Connect the USB printer to the router’s USB port with a USB printer cable.
2.
Install the USB printer driver software
on each computer
that will share the printer. If you do
not have the printer driver, contact the printer manufacturer to find and download the most
recent printer driver software.
3.
On each computer that will share the printer, download the NETGEAR USB Control Center
utility. The NETGEAR USB utility has a Mac version and a Windows version, which you can
access in two different ways:
•
From the ReadySHARE Printer area of this URL:
www.netgear.com/readyshare
•
From the ReadySHARE tab of the Desktop NETGEAR Genie. (See
Desktop
NETGEAR Genie
on page
64).
Note:
You
have to
install this utility before you can use the ReadySHARE
Printer feature. For the ReadySHARE Printer feature to work, this
utility has to be running in the background.
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4.
Follow the instructions to install the NETGEAR USB Control Center utility
.
5.
After you have installed the utility, select the language.
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6.
The first time you access the utility, you are asked to select the printer and click the
Connect
button.
Once the connection is established, the status changes to Manually connected by
xxx
.
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You can click the
Disconnect
button at any time to release the connection. The status
then changes to Available.
After you click the Connect button once on each computer in the network, the utility on each
of them handles the printing queue and handling. The status of the printer is Available on all of
the computers.
•
When the status is Available, you can use the USB printer.
•
When the status is Manually connected by
xxx
, only the
xxx
computer can use the
printer. Other network devices must wait until the
xxx
computer has released the
connection, or until the connection times out (the default time-out value is 30
seconds).
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•
You can set the value for the default time-out time from the Tools > Configuration
screen
.
•
The USB Control Center utility must be running for the computer to be able to print to
the USB printer attached to the router. If you exit the utility, printing does not work.
•
Some firewall software, such as Comodo, blocks the ReadySHARE Print utility from
accessing the USB printer. If you do not see the printer in the utility, you can disable
the firewall temporarily to allow the utility to work.
7.
If your printer supports scanning, make sure that the printer is in the Available state, and
click the
Network Scanner
button. The Scanner window opens so you can use the printer
for scanning
.
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