RELATED: How to Set Up a Shared Network Printer in Windows 7, 8, or 10 Bear in mind that the printer won’t be available while your computer is asleep. The printer should be automatically detected as an available printer in the normal Add Printer interface. With the default settings, people on your local network can find the printer-but they’ll need the username and password of an account on your computer to connect to it. If you have a network printer that connects directly to your network via Wi-Fi or an Ethernet cable, this shouldn’t be necessary.

This is primarily useful if you have a printer connected directly to your PC, but you want to print to it from other computers on your network. However, it’s still possible to share printers on your local network. Windows 10’s April 2018 Update removed the HomeGroup feature, which was introduced in Windows 7 for sharing files and printers on a local network. RELATED: How to Install the Same Printer Twice (With Different Settings) on Windows Think of these as multiple printer profiles you can select between while printing documents. Rather than toggling the settings back and forth every time you use the printer, you can add multiple printer devices that point at the same underlying physical printer. For example, perhaps you have a color printer on which you sometimes print high-quality color photos and sometimes print lower detail black and white documents. However, this can be inconvenient when you have multiple groups of settings you want to toggle between.

Normally, you must go into your printer’s preferences or properties to change various settings.

RELATED: How to Cancel or Delete a Stuck Print Job in Windows For example, you can click Printer > Pause Printing to temporarily pause all print jobs until you unpause them, or click Printer > Cancel All Documents to cancel all pending print jobs. You can also click the Printer menu and use the various options to manage your entire queue.

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