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How to / Setting Up Your Printer on a Network

About the Shared Printer

This section describes how to share the printer on a standard Windows network.

The computers on a network can share the printer that is directly connected to one of them. The computer that is directly connected to the printer is the printer server, and the other computers are the clients which need permission to share the printer with the printer server. The clients share the printer via the printer server.

According to the versions of Windows OS and your access right on a network, perform the appropriate settings of the printer server and clients.

Setting the printer server

For Windows Me/98/95, see Setting Up Your Printer as a Shared Printer

For Windows XP/2000/NT 4.0, see Using an Additional Driver

Setting the clients

For Windows Me/98/95, see With Windows Me/98/95

For Windows XP/2000, see With Windows XP/2000

For Windows NT 4.0, see With Windows NT 4.0

Note:

When sharing the printer, be sure to set the EPSON Status Monitor 3 so that the shared printer can be monitored on the printer server. See Setting Monitoring Preferences.

The printer server and clients should be set on the same network system, and they should be under the same network management beforehand.

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