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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.

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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

.