Readyshare Printer - NETGEAR R6300 User Manual

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:
Connect the USB printer to the router's USB port with a USB printer cable.
1.
Install the USB printer driver software on each computer that will share the printer. If you do
2.
not have the printer driver, contact the printer manufacturer to find and download the most
recent printer driver software.
On each computer that will share the printer, download the NETGEAR USB Control Center
3.
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:
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www.netgear.com/readyshare
From the ReadySHARE tab of the Desktop NETGEAR Genie. (See
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NETGEAR Genie
You have to install this utility before you can use the ReadySHARE
Note:
Printer feature. For the ReadySHARE Printer feature to work, this
utility has to be running in the background.
R6300 WiFi Router 802.11ac Dual Band Gigabit
on page 64).
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