Shared Printer Setup and Troubleshooting Services
Printer Offline Help can set up your printer to your home computer network. Traditionally, the most common way to make a printer available or printer setup to your home network has been, just to connect it to one of the computers and then ask Windows to share it. This is called a shared printer.
Basic Advantage and Disadvantage of Shared Network: Advantage: It works with any USB printer. Disadvantage: Your host computer has to be powered up always; otherwise the rest of the network would not be able to access the shared printer.
Sharing with windows home group: Setting up a shared printer could sometimes be tricky in previous versions of Windows. But a new home networking feature in Windows has greatly simplified the process of printer setup. When a network is set up as a HomeGroup, printers and certain docs/files are automatically shared.
Once your HomeGroup setup is done you have to take the following steps to configure your printing: