Siemens SX763 User Manual

Gigaset SX763 WLAN dsl / en / A31008-M707-R131-2-7619 / printer.fm / 08.12.2006

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Your Gigaset SX763 WLAN dsl is equipped with a USB port that you can use, for exam-
ple, to connect a printer for use as the network printer. The Windows XP or Windows 
2000 operating system is a prerequisite for connecting a printer.

A network printer is a printer on which you can print your documents without it being 
connected to your PC, for example to LPT1, the parallel interface. The advantage of this 
is that you only need this printer once in your network. All PCs for which it is released 
can access it and work with it.

In most cases, a printer of this type is connected to another PC in the network. While this 
offers the advantage referred to above, it has serious disadvantages:

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The printer can only be used by others if the PC to which it is connected is switched 
on.

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The print job you send to the PC to which the printer is connected reduces the per-
formance (resources) of this PC.

If you use the USB port on the Gigaset SX763 WLAN dsl for your printer, you have all the 
advantages of a network printer without the disadvantages referred to above: 

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The network, and consequently also the printer, is always ready (the Gigaset SX763 
WLAN dsl and the printer itself must be switched on, of course). 

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As it is connected to the USB printer port on your Gigaset SX763 WLAN dsl, it does 
not detract from the performance of any other PC in the network. 

To facilitate this option you must first set up a printer port on each PC that is to use the 
network printer. A printer port is an interface on the PC that forwards the print job to an 
IP address within the network. 
Once you have set up this port you must install the printer driver. 

Note:
For multifunction devices (combination of printer, copier or fax) only the printer func-
tionality is supported.