When you take into account its purchase price and all of the consumables it requires–toner or ink, paper, imaging drums, and more–you may find that a printer is one of the most expensive pieces of IT ...

It's usually possible to set up a networked printer to work with Linux, which is especially useful in offices where workstations or servers use that popular operating system. You'll generally need to ...

One of the things I have learned here is to keep everything set for DHCP on my home network. This is for simplicity and reliability while eliminating the need to muck around with static ips. But I ...

Certain capabilities, including printer sharing, are reserved for users with administrative rights. Contact your network administrator if you aren't sure whether you have administrator rights or not.

It can also include more common scenarios such as an office campus, where employees are moving themselves--or just documents--between buildings and need ad-hoc access to printers with limited ...

Assuming a "shared" printer is attached to a PC, then the reason to go wit a network printer is that when the host PC (the one the printer is attached to) is turned off the network printer (which ...

An integral part of any business, regardless of its size is printing. In a business environment, where many employees need access to printers, the need for a printing network is obvious. This allows ...

Michael Bizzaco has been writing about and working with consumer tech for well over a decade. With a background in home theater sales, installation and repair, Michael's hands-on reviews, how-to ...

The D-Link DP-301U is a little gizmo that lets you share a USB printer on your home or office network. That means no longer leaving a PC running 24-7 just to share its printer. Rick Broida Senior ...

If there’s one task that’s almost guaranteed to have you pulling your hair out at some point, it’s printing. It doesn’t matter what you’re printing or where you’re printing from, some way, somehow ...