NETGEAR WNDR4700 Network Router User Manual


 
ReadySHARE Printer
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CENTRIA WNDR4700/WNDR4720
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 shares 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 the page you reach through this URL:
www.netgear.com/readyshare
From the ReadySHARE tab of genie. (See NETGEAR genie App and Mobile genie
App on page 25).
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 running in the background.