What's worked well for me is just to have all of the shared printers as Network printers. Both of my laser printers (HP LaserJet 4 and an Apple Laserwriter 16/600 PS) have LAN connections, and my HP multifunction color injet printer has both wired and wireless LAN capabilities. So each device has its own IP address on my home network and I don't have to worry about printing "through" another computer (and whether that computer is off or on).

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