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Step 6: Share a standalone printer
Unless your home doubles as an office, it's doubtful you have a network printer, and that's OK, too, because you can share a standalone printer across a network as long as the computer it's connected to is part of the workgroup you set up earlier. The best part: You don't have to spend a dime on any additional equipment.
Just go to Control Panel > Printers And Faxes, select the printer you want to share, and, on the File menu, click Sharing. (If you're adding a new printer, the Add Printer wizard lets you set up sharing.) You don't have to change the name of the printer, as long as it's different from the names of the other devices in the workgroup and the workgroup name itself. If you do change it, give it a name that makes it easy to identify, such as the manufacturer name or location. But keep in mind that you'll now see both names listed when you print from the computer it's attached to. It doesn't matter which one you choose. Other computers will see only the share name.
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