N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router WNDR4500

ReadySHARE Printer

You can connect a USB printer to the router’s USB port, and share it among Windows and Mac computers on the network.

To set up ReadySHARE Printer:

1.Connect the USB printer to the router’s USB port with a USB printer cable.

2.Install the USB printer driver software on each computer that will share the printer. If you do not have the printer driver, contact the printer manufacturer to find and download the most recent printer driver software.

3.On each computer that will share the printer, download the NETGEAR USB Control Center utility. The NETGEAR USB utility has a Mac version and a Windows version, which you can access in two different ways:

From the ReadySHARE Printer area of this URL: www.netgear.com/readyshare

From the ReadySHARE tab of the Desktop NETGEAR genie. (See Desktop NETGEAR genie on page 62).

Note: You have to install this utility before you can use the ReadySHARE Printer feature. For the ReadySHARE Printer feature to work, this utility has to be runing in the background.

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NETGEAR WNDR4500 user manual  To set up ReadySHARE Printer