Sharing printers

- So I've got this little inkjet … that's connected directly to my system here … via a USB connection. … Now, at this point in time, … nobody else can use this printer. … The printer is a local connection … and anything that's local to your computer, … be it a printer or be it a folder, … has to actually be shared. … Now, we've discussed sharing folders in other episodes. … This time, let's go ahead and share a printer. … So to do that, let's head over to the Control Panel … and let's take a look at My Devices and Printers. … All right, so here's my happy little printer. … It works great on my own local system, … but I want other people to enjoy it. … So I'm going to go through the process … of sharing this printer. … So I go to Printer Properties and we click on Sharing. … And what I'm going to do is say, Share this printer. … Then I get this big, long name. … I could leave it like that if I wanted, … but this is going to be showing up on the network, … so I want to give it something short. …