NETGEAR WNDR4500

ReadySHARE Printer
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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 rou
ter’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 are
a of this URL:
www.netgear.com/readyshare
• From the ReadySHARE tab of the Desktop NETGEAR genie. (See Desktop
NETGEAR genie on pag
e 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.