NETGEAR AC1450

ReadySHARE Printer
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AC1450 Smart WiFi Router
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 you want to have 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 shares 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 dif
ferent ways:
• From the ReadySHARE Printer area of the page that you access through this URL:
www.netgear.com/readyshare
• From the ReadySHARE tab of the NETGEAR genie app. (See NETGEAR genie App
and Mobile genie App on page 18.)
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 running in the background.