Connecting to your wireless printer should be nice and piece of cake. Click on Kickoff, and so caput into the Control Panel, and then into Printers. Right-click your printer and select properties. Head into the Ports tab and the first column you'll see will display the IP accost of your printer.

If your printer is continued to your router via USB and then the router will be acting as a printer server. Your iMac won't connect directly to the printer, which has no IP address of its ain, just to the printer server on the router.

The IP address of the printer server will most likely be the same as the IP address of the router. To find your router's IP address, open up a command prompt from Windows' Showtime menu Search box. Blazon ipconfig and hit Enter. The IP accost will be listed nether the entry marked Default Gateway.

 If your printer is continued to a Windows PC and needs to be shared with an iMac, the procedure is a little more involved. Because it's connected via USB, it must be shared by the PC to which it is connected. The Windows PC must also exist turned on for the shared printer to be attainable via the network.

Macs use a different protocol to Windows PCs, chosen LPD, to print via a network. For the iMac to be able to see your printer you'll beginning demand to enable this protocol.

Click the Start button and kickoff typing 'Plough Windows features on or off' into the Search box. This choice will appear as i of the search results. Select it and click the '+' side by side to 'Print and Document Services'. Wait for 'LPD Print Service' and check the box to enable it.

Ensure printer sharing is enabled in Windows vii past opening the Control Panel and selecting 'Network and Sharing Eye'. Click 'Modify avant-garde sharing settings', so click the downward arrow next to 'Domicile or Work' to aggrandize the details for your home networking contour.

Make certain file- and printer sharing is enabled by selecting 'Turn on file and printer sharing', and then save your changes and leave. Yous may be prompted to enter an Admin password to complete this step.

Head to the 'Devices and Printers' department in Control Panel and locate the printer you wish to share. Right-click it and select Printer Properties. At present select the Sharing tab and bank check the box marked 'Share this printer'. Give the printer a proper noun by entering information technology into the Share proper noun field. This should be a curt name and incorporate no special characters or spaces, which may misfile other computers attempting to access the printer – especially Macs.