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If you have the need to have a wired printer shared within your home, all you need in order to share is have the printer plugged into one computer and you can share with any another that is inside your network.
Make sure that the printer is connected to one of the computers, set up, and powered on.
Click on Start > Settings > Printers and Scanners, click on the printer that you have plugged in and click the "Manage" link . Then click, "Printer properties."
Select the "Sharing" tab at the top and click on the box by "Share this printer." You can use the default name or change it in the "Share name:" box. If you will be sharing the printer with multiple devices running a mixture of Windows (32 or 64 bit) then you should enable the "Render print jobs on client computers" option to ensure other users can easily install the printer when connecting to the network.
Once connected, you can connect to it in 2 different ways: (1) through "Devices and printer" and clicking the "Add Printer" button, click the link "The printer that I want isn't listed." Choose the "Select a shared printer by name" radio box and browse to the printer on the network by clicking "open." You may be prompted to install the driver. Click "Next" and the installation is complete and will show up in "Devices and printers" as a local device. (2) This method is through the File Explorer. Open the network folder, browse the computer containing the shared printer, right-click on the printer and select, "Connect."
And that is it. Windows is very diverse when it comes to sharing with others on your network and has easy ways to connect with them. This is much easier than sending the document to yourself and then going to the computer that has the printer in order to print a document.
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