One of the things I have learned here is to keep everything set for DHCP on my home network. This is for simplicity and reliability while eliminating the need to muck around with static ips. But I ...

A network printer can be configured with a fixed IP address or it can be set to request an address from the network's Dynamic Host Control Protocol, or DHCP, server. When two printers on a network ...

A printer's IP address is a group of four sets of numbers separated by periods that allows wireless access to your printer's settings and information via a web browser. A WPS PIN (Wi-Fi Protected ...

Most small businesses don't need an enterprise-class print server installed on their network. If your office printer doesn't have network accessibility, you can connect a small device to it and make ...

IP reservation is the process of assigning a specific IP address to a device, such as a computer, so it ... Continue Reading ...

Assuming a "shared" printer is attached to a PC, then the reason to go wit a network printer is that when the host PC (the one the printer is attached to) is turned off the network printer (which ...

Anyone with more than one computer has good reason to consider sharing a printer over a network. No matter what kind of environment you work in—even if you don't already have a network set up—you can ...

Wireless printers are increasingly popular, because such printers are easy to share and can reside just about anywhere you wish–within reach of the Wi-Fi signal, of course. The vast majority of ...

If there’s one task that’s almost guaranteed to have you pulling your hair out at some point, it’s printing. It doesn’t matter what you’re printing or where you’re printing from, some way, somehow ...