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Setup & Maintenance / Setting Up Your Printer on a Network

Sharing the printer

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

The computers on a network can share a 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.

Perform the appropriate settings for the printer server and clients according to the version of the Windows operating system that you are using and your access rights to the network.

Setting the printer server

For Windows Me, 98, or 95, see Setting up your printer as a shared printer.

For Windows XP, 2000, or NT 4.0, see Using an additional driver.

Setting the clients

For Windows Me, 98, or 95, see With Windows Me, 98, or 95.

For Windows XP or 2000, see With Windows XP or 2000.

For Windows NT 4.0, see With Windows NT 4.0.

Note:

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

If your computer is running the Windows operating system in a Windows Me, 98, or 95 environment, double-click the Network icon in the Control panel of the printer server and make sure that the "File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks" component is installed. Then, on both the printer server and the clients, make sure that the "IPX/SPX-compatible Protocol" or the "TCP/IP Protocol" is installed.

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

The screen shots on the following pages may differ from those that appear on your screen, depending on the version of the Windows operating system that you are using.

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