How can i connect multiple computers in one room to a printer? -

At our school we want to be able to connect all our printers in our classroom to one printer. We don t want to connect to one central printer--just the one printer in our classroom so we don t have to have printers for each computer. What do we need?

you can buy a router and create a wireless network between the computers. if you do that you can also have access to all the computers on the network you create.

Ther are a couple solutions. If you use an internet connection in the classroom I would install a router if you do not I would use a switch. You will need to plug all the computers into the router/switch and plug the printer into one of the computers and install the printer drivers.This will be your host computer. Then you will need to enable print sharing on the computer the printer is attached too. Simply go into control panel in xp/vista and click on printer. Then you need to right click on the installed printer icon. Then click on properties. This is where all your optons for the printer are. There will be a tab that says quot;Sharingquot; this is where you turn on print sharing and also you can type in a specified name for the printer you want to share (Brother Laser Printer)etc. As an example. It can be anything you like. Next step you need to go to each computer on the network and add the new printer. Go into the control panel and choose printer. Then you want to select quot;add a printerquot; make sure you click on quot;add anetwork printerquot; when it prompts you as to what type of printer to install. Now there are a couple options first is easy it will automaticlly search for a network printer and may find it. or you may need to manually add it. Buy checking off quot;select a shared printer by namequot; then typing in the location manually. first is the computers name. for example. QUADCORE. you can find the name of your host computer by right clicking on my computer click on properties then click on my computer name. Ok next is the printers name. This is the name you entered when you were turning on print sharing in the printers properties page. example BROTHER LASERJET. Now that you know both your host computer and printers name you can enter it in manually in the add a printer page. it should look something like this \\QUADCORE\BROTHER LASERJET you need to do this on all the computers that you wish to install the printer on. Also back to the begining if you only have a 4 port router and have more then 4 computers you can attach a switch to the router to allow more computers. Best of luck.

well hopefully you have XP Pro cause to my knowledge home doesn t support it. though all you really need is a XP pro disk and you can install the application on a XP home computer but you just need to go to my network places and run the home office setup wizard enable printer sharing. you have to do this on all the computers. on the computer that has the printer click printers and scanners then right click the printer icon and select share and set the share name. then you just need to go around to each printer and add printer from network

The computers must first be networked, and then all you need do is share the printer to the network.

Well how many computers are there in the classroom? You could set up a network and share the printer through the network.