When choosing a printer for your office, one of the options you have to consider is how the printer connects to a computer. Most printers use a direct connection to a single computer, although many ...

It's usually possible to set up a networked printer to work with Linux, which is especially useful in offices where workstations or servers use that popular operating system. You'll generally need to ...

An integral part of any business, regardless of its size is printing. In a business environment, where many employees need access to printers, the need for a printing network is obvious. This allows ...

When you take into account its purchase price and all of the consumables it requires–toner or ink, paper, imaging drums, and more–you may find that a printer is one of the most expensive pieces of IT ...

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 ...

Michael Bizzaco has been writing about and working with consumer tech for well over a decade. With a background in home theater sales, installation and repair, Michael's hands-on reviews, how-to ...

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 ...

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 ...