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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Connecting a laser printer to your office network makes the printer available to employees or colleagues who use the same network, allowing them to print documents, presentations and photos from a ...

Almost any electronic device can be wireless. Wireless printers can also serve as network printers, but network printers do not necessarily have to be wireless printers. There are a few differences ...

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 ...

Back when I was young printing was complicated. Printer drivers were a nightmare of options and standards were rare. Now there are all sorts of standards for printing but the nightmare still continues ...