Using Printers on the Network
Whether you’re part of a large corporation or a small workgroup, or even if you’re a home user with just two computers, network printing is a great time and money saver. Why connect a printer to each computer when it will spend most of its time idle? By not having to buy a printer for each user, you can spend the money you save more constructively on faster, higher-quality, and more interesting printers. You might add a color photo-quality printer or a transparency maker to give your network users more output choices.
Because the software comes with Windows 8, and you can hook computers together for about the cost of a movie ticket, printer sharing alone is a good enough reason to install a network.
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