10 tips for selecting and setting up shared printers

Investing in a printer for your network is a very effective and economical method. However, it is not easy to choose a suitable printer, the following tips can be a suggestion for you.

1. Make sure you really need a shared printer on your local network. Note that for computer networks at home or in small offices, using Windows operating systems to share printers is not enough to require a dedicated print management server.

2. Make sure that the type of printer you choose is fully compatible with your network - there is a connection protocol suitable for your network - as well as your operating system.

3. If you do not master the way to set up a shared printer in the network, then select the printer type that has a fully automatic installation program. Because installing a shared printer on the network requires you to know about IP address settings, LAN connection, open ports .

4. Build a website with the purpose of checking the status and changing all settings in the printer from your browser. This helps the printer administrator not have much knowledge to be able to control the printer on the spot even if it is right next to them.

5. Build a personal print feature for a shared printer so that when someone wants to print a document without others being able to read it, he or she can send a print job from his computer. then the printer has to go to the PIN number printer (personal encryption) to allow the printer to print the document.

6. Use a software that supports printing on 2 sides of paper instead of manual method.

7. Make sure the printer you choose must have a paper tray large enough - at least 1,000 sheets of paper for small businesses. You even think that your needs are not that great, but it also helps you have to add more paper regularly.

8. The printer should have an external printout tray large enough for many different printing tasks because sometimes users often forget their printing results outside the printer.

9. Need to use remote management software for printers if the number of printers in your network has reached the relative number. However, you should also pay attention to software compatibility with printers. Using such a program will save you much time and effort, you can proceed to upgrade the software, drivers for the entire system, not one by one.

10. Even if you don't need the advanced paper handling feature of your printer, consider it a printer that can be arranged because you may need it later.