NETGEAR WNDR4500 Network Router User Manual


 
ReadySHARE Printer
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N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router WNDR4500
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.
To set up ReadySHARE Printer:
1. Connect the USB printer to the router
’s USB port with a USB printer cable.
2. Install the USB printer driver software on each computer that will share the printer
. If you do
not have the printer driver, contact the printer manufacturer to find and download the most
recent printer driver software.
3. On each computer that will share the printer
, download the NETGEAR USB Control Center
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:
www.netgear.com/readyshare
From the ReadySHARE tab of the Desktop NETGEAR genie. (See Desktop
NETGEAR genie on page 62).
Note: You have to install this utility before you can use the ReadySHARE
Printer feature. For the ReadySHARE Printer feature to work, this
utility has to be runing in the background.