How To Share A Printer (Xp)

To share the printer, Open the Printers and Faxes folder on the computer that was connected to the printer.

To open the Printers and Faxes folder

• Click Start and then click Control Panel.
  
• Click Printers and Other Hardware, and then click Printers and Faxes.
  
• In the Printers and Faxes folder, Click the printer's icon and, in the tasks pane, Click Share This Printer.
  
• Open the printer's Properties dialog box, and click on the Sharing tab.
  
• Click Share Name, and then clicked OK.
  

That's it—the printer is immediately available for other computers to use.

To connect to the printer from different machine

• Open Control Panel, and clicked Printers and Other Hardware.
  
• Click Add a Printer.
  
• Instead of adding a local printer, though, Click Printer Connection and then browse the network for the printer.
  

The whole process should take less than a minute before you are printing to the network printer as though it was connected to the computer.